We are pleased to announce the second issue of the SimPRENA Newsletter with the latest information on the project’s activities and outputs. Our newsletter is available in five different languages of the countries represented in the project consortium with the aim of reaching out to a variety of health professionals, educators and/or students willing to explore new opportunities to practice their clinical and decision-making skills.
We are very pleased to announce that the SimPRENA initiative has been invited for oral presentation at the INHWE’s 3rd International Online Conference of Health Workforce Education on Wednesday 8th, Thursday 9th and Friday 10th January 2025.
On Thursday 9th January 2025 at 09:00AM GMT the project will be introduced to a diverse and wide ranging community of healthcare professionals, educators and researchers from all disciplines across the globe. Our simulation expert Mr. Jaroslav Pekara, Head of Paramedic Department at the Medical College of Prague, Czech Republic will provide an overview of the “Examples of Good Practice in Managing Inappropriate Aggression in Healthcare” collected through interviews and questionnaires of needs analysis in EU member states that are associated to SimPRENA.
The SimPRENA consortium has organised a 3rd transnational meeting of partners to discuss the upcoming activities and events. The meeting is to be hosted by Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e.V., Johanniter-Akademie Mitteldeutschland and will be held in Leipzig, Germany on 9-10 December 2024.
The project team will review the completed activities of work packages number 2 (learning needs identification) and 3 (training materials), comprising the adopted examples of best practice and the good practice report. We will also be reviewing the progress of the multilevel e-learning platform, with the view to design all training materials before the end of December, which marks the halfway mark in the project.
The project leaflet is now available for answering all your questions, providing a concise and accessible overview of the main objectives, results, and training activities of SimPRENA.
Whether you’re interested in the challenges of violent healthcare environments, willing to explore new opportunities to practice your clinical and decision-making skills, or simply want to explore our project, the leaflet can offer valuable insights and inspiration.
We are pleased to announce the first issue of the SimPRENA Newsletter with the latest information on the project’s activities and outputs. If you are a health sector professional, educator and/or student willing to explore new opportunities to practice your clinical and decision-making skills through various real-life situational experiences, this is the right project for you with our final outcomes being an e-learning platform, a train-the-trainer course and manual for training the teachers of nursing and paramedic students for simulation education.
The project was presented in the frame of an introduction to ongoing and past projects focusing on health workforce-related challenges. David Smith from the INHWE team outlined the aims of the project, the upcoming simulation package tools for teachers and students, and the training course on how to cope with aggressive, violent healthcare environments. Participants were very interested hearing about these issue and asked for more insights after the presentation.
The SimPRENA project has just kicked off and we aim to keep interested colleagues updated with four newsletters throughout the duration of the two year project. The newsletters will be translated into five languages and if you would like to receive the newsletter and links to the five translations please complete a short sign up form at: https://inhwe.network/simprena-newsletter/
A Kick-Off meeting for the SimPRENA Project was held at VSZ in Prague, Czech Republic. The meeting took place on Thursday 7th and Friday 8th March 2024 and saw colleagues from the project consortium come together for the first time. The first section of the agenda focused on ensuring all project partners had a good general overview of project and aims. The afternoon session was dedicated to creating action plans for the first 12 months of the project and day 2 ended with items on project management, dissemination, and communication. Most importantly, members of the consortium got to know one another during the coffee and lunch breaks, and during a get-together dinner after the meeting had finished. We look forward to our next in-person meeting in Germany next December.
The SimPRENA project is a multi-stakeholder collaborative effort and is expected to have a significant impact on enhancing the skills of nurses, paramedics and other health professionals, especially those who are not familiar with simulation-based training materials and practice. As a result, universities from each country will be assisted in creating their own program for simulation and prevention of the risk of aggression and violence in the healthcare setting.
By the end of 2025 the full set of training tools will be accessible on the project website and the results will be opened for other universities and health organisations who are aimed on the safety of their staff.
