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Highlights of the Escape Room included: 1) a Cipher wheel which Tampa revised to match their donning and doffing processes. Escape room training has motivated, changed attitudes, and has created an enthusiasm for training. The training is practical, fun and helps with the tools that our staff use daily making outcomes second nature. He said: “Many of our EMS staff have stated, that (Escape Room, SimLEARN), is one of the best trainings they have participated in throughout their working career at the James A. Our EMS trainer, Thomas Miller, was so elated with the COVID-19 escape room that now his department sends their housekeepers to our weekly COVID-19 Escape Room trainings. After participating in the COVID-19 escape room the EMS department was then supplied their own PAPR units for use. One rewarding take away from having our EMS learn with our direct care staff in the COVID-19 escape room was that they wanted to also wear a PAPR when cleaning a COVID-19 room after a COVID-19 patient was discharged.
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Tampa decided to introduce the new PAPR training to the escape room participants in the beginning as it would also help them during the game as they learned more about the COVID-19 policies and procedures. This new PAPR had many different steps to follow with donning and doffing compared to the first PAPR we used. Escape rooms provide participants to practice communication, clinical skills, leadership, team building and problem solving in a dynamic and innovative new way for training.Īs our hospital COVID-19 units were having more and more of their Powered Air Purifying Respirators (PAPRs) breakdown, we needed to introduce a different kind of PAPR the hospital obtained. That is an example of one of rules we have for our COVID-19 Escape room.
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For example, the saying of “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” is a rule that many simulation centers have so the next participants will experience the same experiences of thinking and puzzle solving to accomplish the goals of learning. So, what really is an escape room? It is a gamification modality that uses hidden puzzles for participants to put together in order to get to the next clue to complete the objectives of the game. The most beneficial comment to this type of training was on how it was fun and not stale so they could really learn and remember it. At first, some asked "why are we having to find clues to have fun when we need to get back to our work?”Īfter the training, participants commented that they learned a lot especially about a useful communication tool one should use, how team building was really practiced in this setting and not just preached and how the game tested real knowledge of how well one knew the donning and doffing processes. COVID-19 Escape Room participants included physicians, nurses, transporters, and the Environmental Management Service (EMS). They helped us with making sure we had the correct items and specific equipment needed for each clue. Sherri and Michelle joined us online to view and collaborate with the trainings. The simulation conference room was a perfect room to hide the things the group would need to solve the puzzles to accomplish the final task. "Escape rooms have been used for a few years now in simulation, but this was the first time the Tampa VA tried one," stated Program Director, Janet Sprehe, "and the result was unbelievable!"ĭue to COVID-19, we only allow 4-5 staff in the simulation conference room to participate in our escape room so social distancing and wearing masks was maintained. After several Microsoft Teams meetings with the VHA SimLEARN creators of the COVID-19 Escape Room simulation Sherri Boisvert, and Michelle Regragui, Tampa learned the process for this new learning methodology. Together with VHA SimLEARN, the Tampa Advanced Simulation Center piloted a COVID-19 Escape Room to bring an innovative methodology to enforce and prepare new employees with our COVID-19 policies in donning and doffing and proper transfer of a positive COVID-19 patient. Michelle Regragui, MSHS, BSN, RN | Field Based Simulation Nurse Instructor, National Simulation Center, SimLEARN, Orlando, FL Sherri Boisvert, PhD, MSN, RN | Simulation Nurse Instructor, National Simulation Center, SimLEARN, Orlando, FL
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VA Software Documentation Library (VDL)Įscape to Simulation: How a COVID-19 Escape Room provided Interdisciplinary Team Building By: Janet Sprehe, DNP, APRN, CVRN, RN-BC | Program Director of Simulations, James A.Clinical Trainees (Academic Affiliations).War Related Illness & Injury Study Center.Emerging Healthcare Technology Integration.