Best practice in recognising and managing patient deterioration.
An online patient simulation to challenge you in recognising and managing deteriorating patients.
The training program provides you with the opportunity to practice the most common acute patient scenarios, in a hospital setting. Learn and practice skills in recognising and managing deteriorating patients. The simulations are designed to be fun and engaging, yet with the added stress of an acutely ill patient.
Nurse feedback: “An excellent program for healthcare professionals in helping recognise a deteriorating patient.”
7 SIMS
5 adult and 2 obstetric scenarios available.
CPD hours
2-4 hours of CPD with evidence-based simulations.
20,000
20K completions and reviews since inception.
We use live video, rather than avatars, to create a more realistic situation that provides a level of empathy that you experience with your real patients. You will be able to perform a range of interventions to manage deteriorating patients in a short eight minute time-frame. On completion, you will receive dynamic feedback based on your decisions. As you progress through the scenarios, you will build your knowledge and skills, and you can repeat any scenarios you wish to improve on.
Nurse feedback: “I am a practicing midwife so it was a different way of thinking and managing patients.
Since I have a general nursing background this was a good refresher.”
First2Act learning aims
- Provide scenarios that create a sense of pressure – mirroring your clinical practice.
- Encourage you to identify presenting condition(s) and to apply a systematic approach to care.
- Provide you with numerous care options to develop decision strategies.
- Provide you with substantial and detailed feedback to enable practice improvements.
First2Act best-practice, research and design
The First2Act simulation program is based on six years of university research and provides dynamic feedback to the participants in relation to their performance, with the ability to be repeated multiple times.
Since this initial research, we have continually refined and expanded our program from three acute adult patient scenarios to five, and additionally, two obstetric scenarios. We utilise recognised best practice in Australia and Internationally in our training.
As an online simulation training program, First2Act was initially created for third year nursing students at major Australian universities, along with the funding support from the Office of Learning and Teaching.