Simulation Embedded Participant

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •High school diploma or equivalent
• •Demonstrated ability to follow detailed scripted directions accurately
• •Demonstrated ability to repeat a portrayal consistently across multiple consecutive encounters
• •Strong verbal communication skills
• •Professional demeanor
• •Ability to maintain appropriate boundaries in a clinical education environment
• •Reliable attendance
• •Timely communication regarding availability
• •Current licensure or credentialing in a healthcare profession
• •Good standing for the duration of participation
• •Minimum one year of active clinical practice in a relevant specialty
• •Ability to portray clinical team member roles
• •Ability to respond to learner actions in a manner consistent with current clinical practice and team communication norms
• •Familiarity with clinical workflows, equipment, and terminology
• •Visual acuity sufficient to read scripted materials, identify medical equipment and props, recognize facilitator cues and hand signals, and monitor learner actions in low-light and near-dark conditions
• •Ability to adapt to rapid and repeated changes in lighting levels
• •Ability to visually track movement and identify obstacles, personnel, and equipment within a dimly lit clinical simulation space
• •Ability to move safely and independently within a confined simulation space containing floor-level obstacles
• •Ability to maneuver around stationary and moving personnel, patient simulators, and equipment
• •Manual dexterity sufficient to handle medical equipment, props, supplies, and simulated documentation
• •Ability to reach, bend, stoop, kneel, twist, and crouch as required
• •Ability to remain in an assigned position for the duration of scenario encounters
• •Ability to sustain continuous participation across a four-hour simulation block
• •Ability to participate in two consecutive four-hour blocks in a single day
• •Ability to lift, carry, push, or pull equipment, supplies, and simulation props weighing up to 50 pounds occasionally and up to 25 pounds frequently
• •Ability to assist with repositioning patient simulators, task trainers, and simulation equipment
• •Ability to push or maneuver wheeled equipment
• •Ability to hear and distinguish verbal communication, facilitator cues, equipment alarms, and simulated clinical sounds in an environment with competing background noise
• •Ability to speak clearly and project the voice sufficiently to be heard and understood throughout the simulation space
• •Ability to receive and act on direction delivered by radio, headset, intercom, or in-person cue during an active scenario
• •Ability to work in an environment where theatrical smoke or haze effects may be used
• •Tolerance for participating in scenarios depicting medical emergencies, clinical deterioration, patient distress, or death
• •Ability to wear personal protective equipment, including gloves, masks, gowns, eye protection, and scrubs
• •Ability to tolerate variable room temperatures
• •Ability to work in an environment where simulated bodily fluids are present

Desired Qualifications

• •Perioperative experience
• •Critical care experience
• •Emergency experience
• •Anesthesia experience