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This chapter aims to describe the introduction of simulation at the University of California Davis Medical Center and how it has reached its current state of performance. The Center began with the vision and leadership of the Chairman of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, a department that provides clinical, educational, and research services to the communities of Northern California as part of the University of California Davis Health System. The Chairman drafted a proposal introducing the use of simulation into ongoing clinical care and clinical education at the University of California Davis Medical Center and then funded the original purchase of pediatric and adult high-fidelity patient simulators. From the beginning, the Center was intended to be a multidisciplinary center that would use simulation to improve the training of residents and nurses and hence the delivery of all aspects of patient care in our hospital. Also committed to the concept of using simulation to improve patient care and safety was the Director of Nursing who assigned valuable hospital space to house the patient simulators as well as provided a nursing educator's time to support simulation-based clinical education. |
