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Advancing nursing education
through simulation excellence.

ATI understands the importance of simulation in developing practice-ready nurses. In support of this year’s theme, “Be a champion of your success story,” we encourage you to take pride in your efforts to advance nursing education with simulation! You play a crucial role in creating tomorrow’s practice-ready nurses. 
 

ATI’s team of simulation experts creates cutting-edge, award-winning simulation tools for nursing education. These tools help nursing students practice their skills in a safe environment until they feel confident in their techniques, as well as their ability to handle difficult conversations with clients and colleagues. 
 

Scroll down to see the variety of sim tools available to help you support your nursing students’ success!

 

Watch our featured webinar in honor of Sim Week!

Session: "Championing simulation for assessment of clinical competence" (1 contact hour) 

Simulation expert Christine Heid, PhD, RN, CNE, CHSE, will present an exclusive session on how simulation-based learning can help you assess students’ clinical healthcare competencies. Guided by the Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice, you’ll discover the importance of measuring observable behaviors that are essential to the development of clinical judgment and practice readiness. Join the discussion of evidence-based evaluation methods as you consider opportunities for using simulation to assess necessary competencies. 

Outcomes and key discussion points are described on the registration page. 

 
Join us for 1 of 2 sessions on Thursday, Sept. 21, by clicking on the desired time to register: 
 

 

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Simulations from ATI

Looking to take classroom learning a step further? Or maybe you want to help your students be more prepared for clinicals? Do you need to replace lost clinical hours? ATI provides nursing programs with screen-based simulations rooted in realistic scenarios and packed with decision-making opportunities.

Explore ATI simulation solutions

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Explore ATI Simulations

 

Real Life Clinical Reasoning Scenarios

Students build critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment skills as they make decisions that directly impact client care and outcomes via unfolding video scenarios.

Video Case Studies

Live-actor video scenarios allow students to exercise clinical judgment skills as they form and articulate a plan of care, hear an expert response, and complete a self-reflection.

HealthAssess 3.0

Nursing students perform health assessments via 15 learning modules of interactive content that cover all major body systems. This deep learning helps them build their clinical judgment skills.

EHR Tutor

A realistic EHR charting experience gives students the opportunity to chart electronically in simulations, clinical, and the classroom. Faculty can implement 100+ prebuilt patient charts.

Nurse’s Touch Suite

Students gain crucial experience through realistic, challenging scenarios that help them build critical skills in professional communication, leadership, and professionalism.

Civility Mentor

Simulated scenarios feature virtual characters who provide practice in resolving conflict in peer-to-peer and student-to-preceptor conversations — a major focus of fostering civility.

Skills Modules

Students master 180+ essential nursing skills from the convenience of an online skills lab. Learning modules deliver step-by-step demonstration videos, checklists, animations, and more.

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Engage Series

Interactive learning solutions — designed to replace textbooks — provide an all-encompassing virtual experience focused on community and public health, fundamentals, mental health, and adult medical-surgical.

Swift River Simulations 2.0

600+ unfolding screen-based scenarios cover all major clinical areas.

Diverse client scenarios challenge students to practice prioritization and delegation to develop clinical judgment skills.
 

Insights from ATI nurse educators

Want to learn more about simulation in nursing education? Dig into these recent blog articles.

Using nursing simulation: 3 helpful lesson plans

<7-min. read> Incorporating nursing simulation allows nurse educators to step from behind the lectern & create more impactful active-learning lessons.

(Download a PDF of this success story.)

How to choose the perfect nursing simulation tools for your program's specific needs

<1-min. read> Not all nursing simulation options are equal. That means that choosing which types to use is crucial to your students’ success

How 1 college proved the value of virtual nursing health assessment

<5-min. read> Research shows virtual nursing health assessment practice — using ATI’s HealthAssess — increases self-efficacy and preparedness.

Evidence-based research by ATI nurse educators

Expand your understanding of the benefits of simulation. Read recent articles by ATI’s expert nurse educators on various sim-related topics.

Nurse Educator: “Benefits of an online interactive educational program over traditional textbooks”

By Beth Cusatis Phillips, PhD, RN, CNE, CHSE; Janean Johnson, DNP, RN, CNE; Nikita Khalid, MS; Nicole Zapparrata, MA; and Glenn Albright, PhD

Nurse Leader: “The link between safety, quality, and professional identity: What leaders need to know and do”
By Beth Cusatis Phillips, PhD, RN, CNE, CHSE, and Kristen Priddy, PhD, RN

Clinical Simulation in Nursing: “Developing virtual simulations to confront racism and bias in health professions education”
By Nicole Petsas Blodgett, PhD, RN, CHSE; Valerie M. Howard, EdD, MSN, RN, CNE, ANEF, FAAN; Beth Cusatis Phillips, PhD, RN, CNE, CHSE; Kathryn Andolsek, MD, MPH; Angela Richard-Eaglin, DNP, MSN, FNP-BC, CNE, FAANP; and Margory A. Molloy, DNP, RN, CNE, CHSE