Setting Learners up for Simulation and Clinical Success: Achieving Psychological Safety.

Simulation is an effective method for learning and demonstrating competency in the clinical setting. Like protocols used by nurses in the practice setting, simulation educators have standards of best practice to guide their use of simulation for teaching and learning. By using the Healthcare Simulation Standard of Best Practice: Prebriefing, the simulation educators and nurse preceptors can create safe learning and working environments. Incorporating a standard prebriefing method and plan that carries throughout the clinical environment may be one way to decrease stress and anxiety of the nursing team and promote a psychologically safe working environment.

Cyber hygiene concepts for nursing education.

BACKGROUND: The healthcare industry has increasingly been targeted by cybercrime putting patients, organizations, and employees at risk for financial loss and breach of privacy. Malware events compromise system integrity and patient privacy which could lead to delays in treatment, loss of patient data, inability to provide care, and increase in patient harm. In addition, these attacks may also compromise private and personal information for those targeted. OBJECTIVE: Nurses represent a large portion of frontline healthcare workers and are uniquely positioned to help prevent cyber-attacks. Nursing curriculum should include education about the risks to patient safety from cybercrime and the nurse's role in preventing cybercrime. Nursing education has focused on hygiene for patient safety. Adding cyber hygiene to the essential practices of pre-licensure and advanced practice nurses is a first step to protecting patients, organizations, and employees from the repercussions of a healthcare cyber-attack.