{"product_id":"9780826129543","title":"Developing Successful Health Care Education Simulation Centers: The Consortium Model","description":"Pam Jefferies and Jim Battin provide a very thoughtful, step by step approach to create a collaborative health care simulation consortium. It is inspiring to witness many stakeholders come together in Southeast Indiana to effectively educate and train people entering the healthcare profession (and current nurses, doctors, and allied health professionals)! [This book] isn't just about health care and simulation√ñ it offers a terrific road-map for any community, region, or industry focused on developing human potential as the means to economic prosperity and quality of life!\"     \u003cp\u003e —John Burnett \u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e Chief Executive Officer, Community Education Coalition of Columbus, Indiana  \u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e This book provides an important road map for health care professionals to develop collaborations effectively in simulation, regardless of discipline or domain. Readers can also use it to evaluate existing collaborations√ñ[The] book will improve both developing programs and existing programs, so that educators and administrators can focus their attention on teaching and learning through simulation.\"  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e —Bonnie Driggers, MS, MPA, RN \u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e SimHealth Consultants, CEO and Senior Consultant Oregon Health \u0026amp; Science University, Faculty Emeritus \u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e —Michael Seropian, MD, FRCPC \u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e Associate Professor, Oregon Health \u0026amp; Science University \u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e Past Chair and Founder, Oregon Simulation Alliance President, Society for Simulation in Healthcare  \u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e Over two thirds of magnet hospitals in the United States use simulation in staff education programs, and many educators have introduced simulation into their nursing and healthcare curricula. This highly practical volume meets a growing need for guidelines on planning, organizing, and implementing a health care education simulation center, using the collaborative and cost effective consortium model. \u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e The book takes the reader step-by-step through the process of building a coalition of key stakeholders, gathering and analyzing data, assigning leadership roles within the consortium, developing a strategic plan, and implementing and sustaining it. Case studies in each chapter provide real-life insight from a successful existing consortium by examining how it operates and highlighting successes, mistakes, and lessons learned. \u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e Key Features:  \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e • Demonstrates the financial benefits of expense-sharing  \u003cbr\u003e • Co-written by a successful professional educator and a prominent business leader with consortia-building expertise  \u003cbr\u003e • Provides step-by-step plans for building and maintaining momentum and sustainability  \u003cbr\u003e • Includes useful tools for achieving and evaluating excellence  \u003cbr\u003e • Written for nursing and healthcare administrators, managers, educational leaders, and regional community leaders  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49785177571568,"sku":"9780826129543","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780826129543","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}