Early recognition coupled with accurate treatment by
qualified, competent staff are the only safety net mothers
and babies have during childbirth.
The OB Risk Program has as its intended audience
Obstetricians, Anesthesiologists, Midwives, and Nurses
that participate in the care of obstetric patients. The
courses address high risk patient safety issues in the
perinatal care setting. Program content includes:
Electronic Fetal Monitoring (EFM)
Hypertension in Pregnancy
Postpartum Hemorrhage
Shoulder Dystocia
Trial of Labor After Cesarean (TOLAC)
Effective Communication and Event Disclosure in
Obstetrics
In addition, three of the modules—Hypertension in
Pregnancy, Postpartum Hemorrhage, and EFM—are also
identified by the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal
Health (AIM) as effective interventions in the “Prevent
1,000 Maternal Deaths in the U.S. by 2018” initiative
which identifies potential maternal and fetal distress.
As one component of the full OB Risk Program, the EFM
module features a knowledge pre-assessment, virtual
microsimulation, a single player EFM game, and four
courseware modules designed to move the student from
beginning stages to advanced levels of knowledge,
practice, and context.
Along with other important features, the program:
Reduces risk by providing staff with knowledge and skill
to identify early warning signs of maternal and infant
distress.
Optimizes staff competence by offering an integrated
learning program that tests knowledge and critical
thinking.
Reduces costs and increases efficiency by decreasing
time away from the bedside.
Maximizes team performance by integrating team-
collaboration opportunities throughout training, providing
simulated scenarios from various points of view.
Covers micro-simulation for EFM Clinical Reasoning.
Total CE hours will be provided once the entire series is
developed and will have National Nursing CE and National
CME. The EFM module is currently available and offers
4.0 CE and 4.35 CME.
“When the mission is patient first… You don’t try first on the patient.”
-SiTEL Mission
MedStar Health: Right-sized Learning
The Simulation Training & Education Lab (SiTEL) is the
education technology group of MedStar Health, a
10-hospital $4.5B not-for-profit healthcare company
serving the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. areas.
SiTEL’s mission is to transform educational approaches in
healthcare by developing training technologies and
educational approaches that are user friendly and easily
accessible. MedStar’s innovative learning solutions are
focused on a simple concept: to improve patient care by
reducing risk and using an adaptable learning infrastructure.
MedStar SiTEL seeks to create “right-sized learning”—
online modules comprised of easily-digestible content that
sticks, focuses on outcomes, and makes learning accessible.
Staff become engaged by the use of high-production
media, relevant stories, opportunities for clinical decision-
making, and performance support tools ensuring that
learners have access to what they need, when they need
it. Right-sized learning is the new world of reasonably-
sized content that is often delivered online and via social
media in short segments.
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