Certified Healthcare Simulation Professional

📘Program Overview

The Certified Healthcare Simulation Professional (CHSP) program builds the competence to plan, deliver, and evaluate healthcare simulation-based education — from scenario design and realistic environments to psychologically safe debriefing that changes practice.

It integrates adult-learning theory, simulation modalities (manikin-based, standardized patients, task trainers, virtual and hybrid), and the operational side of running a simulation centre safely and efficiently.

Graduates can build a scenario from learning objectives, operate the technology, lead structured debriefings, and demonstrate the impact of simulation on competence, teamwork, and patient safety.

🎯Program Rationale

• Simulation lets teams practise high-risk, low-frequency events without risk to patients.
• Poorly designed scenarios or weak debriefing waste resources and can reinforce bad habits.
• Accreditation and training bodies increasingly expect structured, evidence-based simulation programmes.
• A trained simulation professional turns expensive equipment into measurable improvement in care.

👥Target Audience

• Simulation educators, facilitators, and centre coordinators
• Clinical instructors and preceptors in nursing and medicine
• Simulation technicians and operations specialists
• Quality, patient-safety, and education staff using simulation
• Clinicians who design or deliver in-situ or team-based training

✅Program Objectives

• Apply adult-learning and simulation theory to education design.
• Build scenarios from clear learning objectives with appropriate fidelity.
• Select and operate the right simulation modality and technology.
• Lead structured, psychologically safe debriefings that change practice.
• Evaluate learning and the impact of simulation, and run a centre safely.

🏆Learning Outcomes

• Design a complete, objective-driven simulation scenario.
• Match modality and fidelity to the learning need and budget.
• Facilitate a debriefing using a recognised structured method.
• Assess competence and teamwork with valid tools.
• Manage simulation operations, safety, and realism effectively.

📚Program Structure

• Module 1: Foundations of Healthcare Simulation
• History, purpose, and evidence base for simulation
• Adult-learning theory and experiential learning
• Fidelity, modalities, and when to use each
• Module 2: Scenario Design & Development
• Writing measurable learning objectives
• Building the scenario: progression, cues, and triggers
• Scripting, roles, and standardized patients
• Pilot-testing and refining a scenario
• Module 3: Simulation Technology & the Environment
• Manikins, task trainers, virtual and hybrid simulation
• Audiovisual systems and the control room
• Creating realism (moulage, environment, in-situ simulation)
• Module 4: Facilitation & Debriefing
• Prebriefing and establishing psychological safety
• Structured debriefing methods (e.g. advocacy-inquiry, PEARLS)
• Managing difficult debriefings and giving feedback
• Module 5: Assessment & Evaluation
• Formative vs. summative assessment in simulation
• Valid tools for competence and teamwork (e.g. checklists, global rating)
• Evaluating programme impact and Kirkpatrick levels
• Module 6: Simulation Operations, Safety & Quality
• Running and scheduling a simulation centre
• Safety, infection control, and equipment management in the sim lab
• Simulation for patient safety, QI, and systems testing
• Ethics, confidentiality, and the simulation code of conduct

📝Assessment & Certification

• Module knowledge checks
• Scenario-design exercise from given objectives
• Facilitated debriefing demonstration
• Final written examination (passing score 60%)

🚀Capstone / Practical Project

Design a complete simulation scenario for a chosen clinical objective — including objectives, script, environment, roles, assessment tools, and a structured debriefing plan — ready to run in a simulation centre or in situ.

🏥Organizational Impact

• Scenarios that are objective-driven and genuinely improve performance
• Debriefings that change practice in a psychologically safe way
• Better use of simulation equipment and centre resources
• Measurable gains in competence, teamwork, and patient safety

📈Career Pathway

• Simulation Educator / Facilitator
• Simulation Centre Coordinator
• Simulation Operations Specialist / Technician
• Clinical Skills & Simulation Lead

Exam Fee: $495  ·  Study Material: $195