Sim Nurse NZ

Dr. Laura Newhouse on her 2 year Douglas Starship Simulation Programme Fellowship 

Season 2. Episode 7

Episode Summary: In this episode of SimNurseNZ, we had the privilege of sitting down with Dr. Laura Newhouse, who recently completed her two-year fellowship with the Douglas Starship Simulation Programme in Auckland, New Zealand. Dr. Newhouse shares invaluable insights from her fellowship experience, the impact of simulation in he...

SimNurseNZ Interviews Lydia Lofton

Season 2. Episode 7

Episode Summary:  In this episode of the SimNurseNZ podcast, we’re joined by Lydia Lofton, Associate Director at NHS Elect, to explore her fascinating journey into simulation and its transformative impact on her career. Lydia’s extensive experience in the world of healthcare simulation, coupled with her role as past president of the International Pediatric Simulation Society (I...

SimNurseNZ Interviews Dr. Carl Horsley

Season 2. Episode 6

Episode Summary: In this episode of the SimNurseNZ Podcast, Erin, Alison and Marie had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Carl Horsley, a seasoned ICU specialist at Middlemore Hospital in New Zealand. Carl is an Intensivist working at Middlemore Hospital in New Zealand with a background in Emergency Medicine. Within this role Carl’s focus has been on the practical applicati...

Dr. Traci Wolbrink on Healthcare Simulation Behind a Screen

Season 2. Episode 5

Dr. Traci Wolbrink is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and an Intensivist at Boston Children's Hospital in the PICU. Traci co-founded OPENPediatrics alongside Dr. Jeffrey Burns. OPENPediatrics is an innovative online platform, aimed to revolutionise paediatric healthcare education globally. OPENpediatrics serves as a collab...

Dr. David Gaba, "Simulation is a Technique not a Technology"

Season 2. Episode 4

Dr. David Gaba is coined one of the grandfather’s of Simulation in Healthcare. His astounding career achievements include the creation of the first medical manikin and merging CRM (crisis resource management) from the airline industry into healthcare simulation based education. Dr Gaba is full of profound insights and catchy taglines.

Dr. David Gaba is...

Dr. Jabeen Fayyaz on Healthcare Simulation, AI in translation, and Human Factors.

Season 2. Episode 3

Dr. Jabeen Fayyaz is an experienced healthcare simulation educator, leader and researcher with expertise in AI applications for clinical education. Dr Jabeen Fayyaz serves as the SimKIDS Medical Director at Sick Kids Hospital in Canada and holds the position of Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. Additionally, she con...

Dr Jessica Stokes-Parish on Moulage and Simulated Participants in Healthcare Simulation

Guest Speaker: Dr Jessica Stokes-Parish

Season 2. Episode 2

Dr Jessica Stokes-Parish is an Associate Dean and Translational Simulation researcher at Bond University, specialising in healthcare simulation, moulage techniques, and the use of simulated participants. With a background in nursing and education, Jessica brings a wealth of knowledge on...

Dr. Todd Chang, Virtual Reality in Healthcare Simulation Research.

Season 2. Episode 1

Dr. Todd Chang is based at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA). Todd is the Medical Director at Las Madrinas Simulation Center at CHLA and is a Children’s Emergency Senior Physician. Todd is also an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Southern California. He has stood past and present on a number of international an...

In this episode Erin Carn-Bennett, Alison Cartwright & Marie Collinson interview Dr Khang Hee Gan.

Episode 5

Khang tells us about his career journey to becoming a Paediatric Emergency Consultant in Starship Children’s Hospital and also his journey into simulation. He talks about his experience of being the Douglas Starship Simulation Programme fellow in 2019 and then the Simulation fellow at Sick Kids, Toronto, Canada in 2020. ...

G+T Who is DSSP and how did we get to where we are now?

Episode 4

This episode of Sim Nurse NZ focuses on the history of and current status of the clinical simulation team that is the Douglas Starship Simulation Programme. (DSSP) Erin Carn-Bennett, Marie Collinson & Alison Cartwright interview Trish Wood (Operations Manager of DSSP) & Dr Nuthall (Starship PICU intensivist & DSSP programme Lead for Outreach) who are hug...

The pivot of simulation based education.

Episode 3

In this episode we take some time to share stories and reflect on how we all had to pivot in our clinical simulation based education roles in 2021. How and why did we do this? It is still relevant today as we all struggle to continue to prioritise education in the current healthcare climate. We talk about work imagined vs. work done in policy writing and how simulation can be a too...

In this episode we are incredibly lucky to interview one of the international “gurus of simulation” Dr Peter Weinstock.

Episode 2

Dr Weinstock is the Executive Program Director, Immersive Design Systems (formally SIMPeds); Anesthesia Endowed Chair in Pediatric Simulation; Senior Associate, Critical Care Medicine & Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School. Peter has been a pivotal international link for the Douglas Starship S...

SimZones by Roussin & Weinstock (2017) Journal club & who are is SimNurseNZ?

Episode 1

In this episode you will get to know the “ultimate tripod” of healthcare simulation nurse educators from the Douglas Starship Simulation Programme.

They are: Erin Carn-Bennett, Marie Collinson & Alison Cartwright. What are our backgrounds?

Who used to be a volunteer firefighter?

Who was just jealous of setting up the simulations behin...