Standard of Best Practice: Simulation-Enhanced Interprofessional Education (Sim-IPE)

Webinar Overview

This presentation will discuss the process used to develop the Standard of Best Practice: Simulation-Enhanced Interprofessional Education (Sim-IPE). A review of evidence will be presented that supported overlapping concepts of simulation-based and interprofessional education in developing the standard statement and guidelines of the standard.

NOTE: This Webinar is open to everyone including non-members, communities of interest, practice representatives, and AACN member schools including deans, faculty, staff and students.

Webinar Speakers

Sharon Decker, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN
Associate Dean for Simulation and Professor, School of Nursing
Covenant Health System Endowed Chair in Simulation and Nursing Education
and Executive Director of the F. Marie Hall SimLife Center
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Dr. Decker is the Associate dean for Simulation, a Professor in the School of Nursing, the Executive Director of The F. Marie Hall SimLife Center, and Covenant Health System Endowed Chair in Simulation and Nursing Education at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. She was the Director of the Health Sciences Center’s Quality Enhancement Program (QEP): Interprofessional Teamwork. Dr. Decker’s educational research, supported by multiple grants, is related to how simulation can be used to improve learning and promote professional and interprofessional competencies. She currently serves as the Chair of the Certification Committee for the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and as a member of the Standards Committee for the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning. Dr. Decker has been the recipient of the Texas Tech’ Chancellor’s Council Distinguished Teaching Award and the TTUHSC President’s award for Academic Achievement, Excellence in Teaching, and Outstanding Professor. Dr. Decker is a fellow in the Academy of Nursing Education and American Academy of Nursing.

Chad Epps, MD
Associate Professor, School of Health Professions
Director of Simulation, Office of Interprofessional Simulation
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Dr. Epps is trained in Anesthesiology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center and completed a fellowship in Human Patient Simulation at Mount Sinai’s Human Emulation Education and Evaluation Lab for Patient Safety and Professionalism. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), holds academic appointments in four schools (Medicine, Health Professions, Nursing, and Engineering), and is the Associate Director for UAB’s Office of Interprofessional Simulation. As a fellow, faculty, and director of simulation he has been active in simulation education, research, assessment, and center management. The UAB simulation team has successfully constructed an organizational model for implementing high quality interprofessional simulations across the enterprise, including both the University and Health System. Dr. Epps is President-Elect of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. He is published in the areas of simulation-based interprofessional education and co-edited the recently released textbook Defining Excellence in Simulation Programs (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2014).