World Patient Safety Day is observed on September 17th. This year’s campaign focuses on the theme “Safe care for every newborn and every child” under the slogan “Patient safety from the start!”, highlighting the vulnerability of this age group to the risks and harms of unsafe care, according to WHO.
To commemorate this event, on Wednesday, September 24th, at 4:00 p.m. (GMT+2), FUNIBER will organize a webinar on “The Impact of Clinical Simulation in Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing,” presented in Portuguese.
The conference is free-of-charge and open to anyone interested in the topic. Check the broadcasting schedules in this link.
Registration is required to participate:
“The Impact of Clinical Simulation in Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing” webinar registration
Marlene Gueve Dumba Amorim will present the event. Marlene works as a professor and coordinator of the Nursing Program at the Polytechnic Institute of the José Eduardo dos Santos University and is a student of the Master’s Degree in Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing at IP-UJES/Huambo.
Clinical simulation is an increasingly widespread practice in the university setting that aims to bring reality as close as possible to students without endangering patients.
Nursing professionals currently have at their disposal different clinical simulation tools to facilitate their daily work. While Spain already has high-level centers for clinical simulation, Angola is gradually beginning to implement it in the classroom. “Obstetric simulation in Angola remains a pioneering experience that should be expanded to educational institutions to address the need to connect theory with obstetric practice,” states Marlene.
Postpartum hemorrhage, shoulder dystocia, cephalopelvic disproportion, umbilical cord prolapses, placental anomalies, hypertensive disorders, and eclampsia, among others, are some of the common obstetric emergencies in Angola. “These emergencies can be trained with high-fidelity simulators that make it possible to recreate scenarios in highly complex environments and coordinate decision-making with the team involved,” adds the speaker.
Clinical simulation has multiple advantages among students. In addition to honing their skills, confidence and safety building also comes into play.
Professor Dumba Amorim already uses some low-fidelity dummies in her classes. The university’s limited financial resources prevent her, for the time being, from obtaining high-fidelity equipment, such as a birthing simulator, a model to explore Leopold’s maneuvers, or a model to explore cervical dilatation in the different phases of the first and second stages of labor.
Projects that seek to promote universal education
UJES participates, together with the Universidad Europea del Atlántico (European University of the Atlantic, UNEATLANTICO) and the Universidade Internacional do Cuanza (International University of Cuanza, UNIC), in the Erasmus+ CLINICALSIM project, a European and African initiative that aims to transform healthcare education and promote the use of clinical simulation in the classroom, among other actions. In February of this year, the partners of the project met in Valladolid and visited the Advanced Clinical Simulation Center of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Valladolid (UVa) to share experiences and transfer this knowledge to their country.
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