This is a four-part course. All four courses are required to earn the certificate. You do not have to sign up for all four courses at once. The four courses can be taken in any order.

DESCRIPTION: This innovative online certificate program is designed to explore the various components necessary to develop and run simulation scenarios within an academic or clinical setting.

WHO: Any nurse practicing in an education role who is interested in developing or working in a simulation program. This would be applicable to nurse educators in academia or healthcare facilities, preceptors, mentors, or staff nurses who are interested in learning more about this teaching pedagogy.

WHY: The content will provide the nuts and bolts of simulation to include how to assess educational needs, develop, implement and evaluate simulation experiences.

WHAT: In order to receive this 60-hour certificate (equal to 60 contact hours), completion of the four modules is required. Each module is 15 contact hours and is taught in an online format: 6 hours virtual live webinar, 9 hours online utilizing discussion boards and case studies, and required reading over the course of 4 weeks in an asynchronous manner.
 

Module 4: Trends in Healthcare and Use of Simulation to Impact Patient Outcomes

Topics: Topics include: evaluation instruments, current research and trends in outcomes, trends in simulation, utilization of resources.

Learning Outcome:  Upon successful completion of this module, the participant will be able to discuss the important components of simulation design and important aspects to consider for simulation scenario implementation in both the hospital and academic settings.

Agenda for Live Day

• Session 1: Historical underpinnings and components of the NLN/Jeffries Simulation Theory and the INACSL Standards for Best Practice: Participant Assessment & Evaluation. (120 min)
• Session 2: Valid and reliable tools used to measure outcomes of a simulation: Grundy’s Confidence Scale, Lasater Clinical Judgment Rubric, Satisfaction with Simulation Experience Scale, Satisfaction with Cultural Simulation Experience Scale, The Indiana Simulation Integration Rubric for Measuring IP Communication, The Modified Simulation Effectiveness Tool, & The Creighton Competency Evaluation Instrument (90 min)
• Session 3: Development of a systematic evaluation plan for one’s simulation program while keeping in mind educational and patient care outcomes (patient safety/preventable harm, EBP bundles, EBP tools for measurement). Introduction of the PDSA Model for QI (90min)
• Session 4: Trends in Simulation: Content included -Defining interprofessional education and discussion of the INACSL Standards of Best Practice: Simulation-Enhanced Interprofessional Education (Sim-IPE) and virtual simulation (vSim for Nursing™️ and Sentinel City™️).Health Policy and Legislative Issues (60 min)
• 4 weeks of Readings and Discussion Board Posts and Responses on the Canvas LMS plaform

November 4-December 1, 2026, live virtual webinar on November 4, 2026

Cost: $350
 

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Join students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members as we read through Pope Leo IV’s first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas. 

There will be four reading groups:

• Wednesdays (10/14, 10/28, and 11/11), 12:30-1:20pm, In-person (Saint Anselm College)
• Tuesdays (10/13, 10/27, and 11/10), 4-5pm, In-person (Saint Anselm College)
• Mondays (10/12, 10/26, 11/9), 7-8pm, Zoom
• Wednesdays (10/14, 10/28, and 11/11), 7-8pm, Zoom

Join Saint Anselm College President, Dr. Michael Lewis, in conjunction with the Professional Development Initiative, for a special Boston Business Roundtable with keynote speaker Matthew Steinaway '90, P'21, Trustee.

Speical thank you to our host, Daniel Puopolo '98, partner at Corient and Saint Anselm College Trustee.

Please join us as we welcome Dr. Laura Shea for A Family Resemblance:

Exploring Life, Death, and Art Through Family Photographs

Philosophy Professor Robert Anderson will offer this year’s Olaf Tollefsen Memorial Lecture, “Reflections on Basic Human Goods Fifty Years Later.” The revival of the natural law tradition in ethics that was spearheaded fifty years ago by Germain Grisez, John Finnis, Joseph Boyle, and Olaf Tollefsen is built on a thick theory of human goods. Specifically, the list of human goods included in that thick theory is rich, diverse, detailed, and more or less comprehensive. The lecture will make some observations about that list.

Professor Anderson’s lecture will appropriately commemorate the work and memory of Dr. Olaf Tollefsen. Dr. Tollefson taught in the Philosophy Department at Saint Anselm College beginning in 1975 until his death in 1989. Besides being a beloved and legendary professor and colleague at Saint Anselm, he was an important figure in the development of New Natural Theory.

Dr. Ben Horton, Assistant Academic Dean