ABC - ✔️ airway, breathing, circulation
AC - ✔️ before meals
Advocacy and inquiry - ✔️ A communication method within debriefing
that pairs a statement of observation and point of view with a question
directed at understanding an action through a participant's cognitive
construct or frame.
AMA - ✔️ against medical advice
APAP - ✔️ Automatic Positive Airway Pressure
Assessment - ✔️ The process of documenting, usually in measurable
terms, a subject's knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs.
Avatar - ✔️ Graphical representation of the user or user's alter ego or
character. It may take either a 3-dimensiona form, as in games or virtual
worlds, or a 2-D form as an icon in Internet forums and other online
communities.
Behavioral Skills - ✔️ the decision-making and team interaction
processes used during team's management of a situation
best practices - ✔️ An idea that asserts that there is a technique, method,
process, activity, incentive, or reward that is more effective at delivering
particular outcomes than any other technique, method, process, and so on.
the most efficient (least amount of effort) and effective (best results)way of
accomplishing a task based on repeatable procedures that have proven
themselves over time for large numbers of people
Briefing - ✔️ This refers to any activity that occurs prior to a simulation
event such as an educational activity. This can include giving instructions,
guidelines, or directives. This can be for the instructional staff as well as for
the learners.
, CABG - ✔️ coronary artery bypass grafting
CHF - ✔️ congestive heart failure
CHSE - ✔️ Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator
CHSE-A - ✔️ Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator-Advanced
CHSOS - ✔️ Certified Healthcare Simulation Operations Specialist
CHSOS program - ✔️ A term used throughout various documents and
resources of the CHSOS certification. It is a general term used to encompass
any and all activities related to the application, verification, certification
granting, administrative, and other functions performed in the certification
program.
COPD - ✔️ chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Clinical scenario (simulated scenario) - ✔️ A plan of an expected and
potential course of events for a simulated clinical experience.
Computer-based simulation - ✔️ Simulation activities that are performed
via a computer program. These are similar to virtual reality simulations,
but do not include additional interfaces between the learner and the
computer.
Confederate - ✔️ An individual other than the patient who is scripted in a
simulation to provide realism, additional challenges, or additional
information for the learner.
Construct validity - ✔️ the degree to which a test measures what it
claims, or purports, to be measuring
Content validity - ✔️ The extent to which a measure represents all facets
of a given social construct. It requires the use of recognized subject matter
experts to evaluate whether test items assess defined content and more
rigorous statistical tests than does the assessment of face validity.