Determining Nursing Education Needs During a Rapidly Changing COVID-19 Environment.

COVID-19 created an environment that required rapid implementation of procedures and processes to minimize transmission. This led to an urgent response from the Department of Professional Practice and Education to implement education to a large number of personnel. This article describes strategies and methods employed to meet the training demands at a time when resources and supplies were limited.

Five alive: using mock code simulation to improve responder performance during the first 5 minutes of a code.

Purpose: This article reviews the institution of mock code simulation training to improve registered nurses responder performance at a trauma 1 teaching hospital.

Method: An in-situ mock code is held on random medical-surgical/telemetry units every month. Participants are asked to respond to 2 different scenarios using a 3-G Sim Man and the unit's emergency equipment.