Applying INACSL’s Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice® in CBE
Webinar Details
As nursing education transforms to embrace competency-based education (CBE), simulation emerges as a vital strategy for advancing experiential learning across the classroom, lab, and clinical environment. This webinar, offered in collaboration with leaders from the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL), will guide AACN members in exploring how simulation can elevate instructional approaches and strengthen learner outcomes. Designed for faculty at every level—including classroom instructors, course coordinators, clinical faculty, and simulation educators—this session will highlight the Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice® and their application across diverse educational settings. Participants will gain evidence-based insights, practical strategies, and innovative examples of how simulation fosters meaningful learning, competency development, and rigorous evaluation. Attendees will also be introduced to INACSL resources to support continued growth and integration of simulation as a cornerstone of CBE in nursing education.
Outcomes:
- Apply the Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice® across multiple modalities to support experiential learning and competency-based education.
- Evaluate strategies for integrating best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment to improve outcomes in nursing and healthcare simulation.
- Integrate INACSL resources and evidence-based strategies to support faculty growth and the adoption of simulation as a cornerstone of competency-based education (CBE).
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Speakers
Fara Bowler, DNP, APRN
Associate Professor, Assistant Dean of Clinical Simulation Science Sr. Director of Clinical Partnerships and Placements
University of Colorado Anschutz
Dr. Fara Bowler is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado College of Nursing, where she serves as Assistant Dean of Clinical Simulation Science and Senior Director of Clinical Partnership and Placements. A recognized leader in clinical and simulation-based education, she has advanced academic-clinical integration through her dual leadership roles. She is serving her second elected term on the INACSL Board of Directors, where she champions international member engagement through the International Community of Practice, and was an author of the 2021 INACSL Standards of Best Practice: Simulation?. Dr. Bowler has also contributed as a member of the Standards Committee, served as liaison to the Governance and Financial Oversight Committees, and was an early collaborator in developing INACSL’s innovative Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice Endorsement™.
Ashley Franklin, PhD, RN
Polly & Tex Rankin Endowed Professor of Nursing
Texas Christian University
Dr. Ashley Franklin serves INACSL as the Immediate Past President and liaison to the Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice Endorsement™ Committee. Her experience as a simulation leader at Texas Christian University includes curriculum, faculty development, program evaluation, and competency assessment in formative simulation. Dr. Franklin is a past author of the Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice®.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to deans, faculty, staff and students from AACN member schools of nursing. All non-member audiences will be required to pay a $59 webinar fee.
Continuing Nursing Education
One nursing continuing professional development (NCPD) credit is associated with this webinar; attendees must be present for the entire webinar and complete the evaluation to receive a certificate of completion.
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.