Participants reported increased confidence, readiness and teamwork after completing the SimLab programme¶

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Evidence · 1 study · design r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2025 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? By session 4, participants reported increased confidence and readiness for paediatric emergencies and a strengthened sense of collective teamwork. → O'Hare 2025

Evidence¶

O'Hare 2025¶

O'Hare, S., Kajamaa, A., Conn, R., & Gormley, G. (2025). SimLab: an intervention to promote expansive learning and organisational change in team-based emergency care simulation. Instructional Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11251-025-09734-7

q2 · i? · design · r2

Session 4 group interview self-reports. A participant reported "an increase in our confidence and our readiness"; another stated the team had become "all one big team" with improved communication.

"I think there has probably been an increase in our confidence and our readiness to deal with something like that. It has opened a lot of conversations with admin we've gone through a lot of what we did in the study with them and used learning points"

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Collaboration — outcome: instruction changes it

Related Claims¶

• A real-life paediatric emergency occurring after the intervention was managed well by staff who had not participated in SimLab, suggesting cascade of the transformed practices — related
• After implementing collaboratively designed changes (emergency trolley, grab bags, orientation rules), the second in-situ simulation showed smoother, faster emergency care delivery — related
• In a theory-guided in-situ simulation programme, an interprofessional primary care team progressed through the expansive learning cycle from questioning current practice to consolidating new practices — related
• Three contradictions emerged in the SimLab process — individualised emergency response, excluded non-clinical staff, and outdated CPR training — and their collaborative resolution drove organisational change — related
• Mixed interprofessional group training promoted mutual respect, understanding of roles, and appreciation of teamwork among ED participants — related