Using Standardized Patients in Large-Scale Hospital Disaster Drills

摘要

In this continuing series on how nursing professional development (NPD) practitioners can optimize their use of standardized patients (SPs), I interviewed Mary Ellen Elias, MSN, RN, Simulation Coordinator and Co-Director for the Interprofessional Advanced Fellowship in Clinical Simulation for the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Veterans Affairs Medical Center, who plans and implements large-scale disaster simulations at her facility. She has been working with trained SPs for the past 5 years through the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.