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Healthcare simulation can be a powerful patient safety tool for exploring a new patient care space or environment. This post-construction simulation can be used to aid in orientation to the new hospital environment, to train healthcare providers for new workflows and processes of care, and to identify latent safety threats in the new environment. Latent safety threats are hazards in design, organization, process, training, or maintenance that remain hidden until negatively affecting an actual patient. Simulation, when implemented as a clinical system test, provides a safe and realistic mechanism for uncovering these latent safety threats by recreating both high risk and routine patient care scenarios in the new environment. Our goal for this chapter is to examine how to best implement simulation in this post-construction phase. We will review the steps to implement simulation in a post-construction phase of a new hospital environment, after construction is complete but before initiating patient care, and how to make system refinements.
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Arnold, J.L., Bosch, S.J., Valipoor, S. (2021). Exploring New Hospital Patient Care Spaces Using Simulation. In: Deutsch, E.S., Perry, S.J., Gurnaney, H.G. (eds) Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Improving Healthcare Systems. Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72973-8_15
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