Conclusion

Now that you have completed the course, you will have had an opportunity to explore and to understand the role that digital simulation can play in supporting the training and education of healthcare practitioners. As well as having reflected on key points within the course that is relevant to your own sphere of healthcare, you will have also had opportunity to think about the benefits and opportunities as well as some of the drawbacks of digital simulation. Technology in support of learning will continue to be a changing landscape, not only as new technologies emerge but as the integration of machine learning/artificial intelligence (AI) provide additional scope to learners and instructors as they seek to enhance and improve the safety and quality of patient and client care.

Further resources:

• Event recordings (HEIW, N.D.) – explore this curation of Wales-based simulation related events and publications.
• Virtual Reality work experience videos – if you are an NHS employee you may find this resource useful with examples of different case scenarios (HEE, 2022).
• The best podcasts on healthcare simulation – SIMZINE – Marhar (2024) presents a summary of podcasts in healthcare simulation.
• CoDHcast | Council of Deans of Health – Podcasts by the CoDH (2025) on contemporary topics.
• Simulation Debrief by CAE Healthcare – a podcast about the future of healthcare simulation (Patel, 2022).
• TALK: A tool for structured clinical debriefing (Diaz-Navarro et al, 2022). You will need to sign up to an account to access this one.

Want to explore more? You may be interested in the following OpenLearn resources:

• Introducing Health Sciences: Paramedics: Track 1
• Life or Death Decisions
• So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing
• Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

This free course is related to the Open University qualification R39 BSc (Honours) Nursing.