The Center for Medical Simulation

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The Center for Medical Simulation episodes

October 02 Caring for Caretakers | Curious Now with Jenny Rudolph
How do we take care of ourselves in a way that allows us to bring the right leadership moves to the needs of the moment? : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
Whether it’s an identity snarl or an identity tsunami, we have to be able to lift the grip of our anger and bitterness off of our internal steering wheel and get back to a place where our actions are being driven by compassion, whether that’s compassion for ourselves (I’m going to get myself out of this situation that’s making part of me feel so angry) or others.
Workout of the week: When you feel flooded, get curious about what is driving it—listen to what that flooded part of your system tells you, and offer some compassion.
Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/
#healthcaresimulation #nursing #medicine #debriefing #psychsafety
23 min
September 25 Why Visionary Leadership Isn’t Authoritarian | Curious Now with Jenny Rudolph
Instead of threats about the consequences of not staffing their clinics adequately during the holidays, a healthcare leader was persuaded to present the staffing goal as a challenge and ask for solutions from the team for how to get there: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
Many of us think of leadership as a trait that you are born with, but research increasingly shows that leadership is a series of skills you can learn, beginning with emotional intelligence. This week we’re getting you ready to articulate a visionary goal within your context, and letting others help you to achieve it.
Workout of the week: Articulate a clear “micro” vision in a group that you are working with, meaning a vision for the next 15 minutes to hour of your collective time.
Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/
#healthcaresimulation #nursing #medicine #debriefing #psychsafety
19 min
September 18 Compassion Versus Empathy | Curious Now with Jenny Rudolph
Breaking eight ribs and puncturing a lung after hitting a tree in a downhill biking accident, Jenny got the coffin’s eye view of someone being completely flooded at the scene of an emergency: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
Using Name-Claim-Aim as a crisis management strategy in the moment allowed the team to down-regulate their reactions and empathy regarding an injured family member to the point that they could manage the rescue.
There is a useful distinction between empathy and compassion, which are generally used interchangeably. Feeling someone’s emotional distress or physical pain can, very intuitively, add up to total drain on our resources and capacity. However, there’s also literature around the healing power of compassion. So is compassion fatigue a problem, or is compassion a good thing?
Empathy is a ‘feeling with,’ meaning that you are experiencing some version of the same suffering as the person. Compassion, on the other hand is ‘feeling for,’ which is caring without necessarily feeling. Empathy is the detection system so that your brain can identify what it is you should feel compassion and caring for.
Workout of the week: Notice 2-3 times when you feel either empathy or compassion, or the pathway from one to the other, and note “When am I feeling with, and when am I feeling for?”
Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/
#HCSimWeek26 #healthcaresimulation #nursing #medicine #debriefing #psychsafety
16 min
September 11 Thinking Makes It So | Curious Now with Jenny Rudolph
Varying the narration that accompanies a situation can change the physiological way that learners experience it: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
How do we reset ourselves when people come at us with intense emotions? One of Jenny’s useful reframes for herself was: when someone argues with me, that’s a good thing. When someone cares enough about a situation to get upset, a way to reframe is that they care about the situation.
Workout of the week: Find a way to reframe cognitively a situation that lets you feel less injured, angry sad, stung, etc., by something someone else has done.
Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/
#healthcaresimulation #nursing #medicine #debriefing #psychsafety
21 min
September 04 Distanced Self-Talk | Curious Now with Jenny Rudolph
As we learn to manage, we have to acknowledge that defensive survival circuits are automatic, and produce immediate behavioral and physiological changes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
When we react, we know from the research that our management is not to prevent reactions, but rather what we do AFTER we react. We have to reset ourselves and repair whatever happened during the reaction. Deep breaths, half-smiles (reset of the facial muscles), and instructional self-talk work best--in Jenny’s case, the instruction is “use the skills you have” when you’re wanting to fight or freeze. It should also say “you”, or your name, rather than “I.”
Workout of the week: Give yourself an instructional mantra that will work for you when you come to difficult situations. Jenny’s version is “use the skills you have.”
Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/
#healthcaresimulation #nursing #medicine #debriefing #psychsafety
17 min
August 28 Knocked Off Your "A" Game | Curious Now 51
Little and big glitches both can knock you out of inhabiting your best self when you least expect it. Stress about her daughter’s upcoming wedding burst out in an unexpected way in Jenny’s morning huddle: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
What makes us bring up the fists and start fighting, or as Jenny puts is, releases her inner magpie when her jewels are threatened? Becoming aware of what are those things that trigger us—that perhaps unleash an “identity snarl”—is the first step towards self-awareness.
Workout of the week: Catch your glitches when they drive by—what are those people, places, and events that trigger you?
Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/
#healthcaresimulation #nursing #medicine #debriefing #psychsafety
14 min
August 21 10 Psych Safety Workouts | Curious Now with Jenny Rudolph
Interested in just the workouts? This week, we’ve assembled a package of 10 workouts to improve your team’s psych safety: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
Hey friends! Jenny is off this week attending her daughter’s wedding, so we thought it was a great time to put together a special highlight reel of 10 focused workouts on psych safety. We hope this format is helpful for our listeners—please let us know!
Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/
#healthcaresimulation #nursing #medicine #debriefing #psychsafety
12 min
August 14 Am I Safe? | Curious Now 50
Self-awareness of our stress level is the foundation of our ability to self-regulate, which is what allows us to notice what’s going on with others more accurately: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
What makes us feel safe and social? People’s lower brain stems have evolved to underweight positive experiences in the face of stress. When we feel highly activated, without being frightened or overwhelmed, it can create a positive state of stress which helps us perform better. When you are completely flooded, you are less likely to be able to detect and correct your perceptions of other people.
Workout of the week: Notice the glimmers that help you feel safe and social, and enhance them by spending more time with them or holding on to them in some way.
Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/
#healthcaresimulation #nursing #medicine #debriefing #psychsafety
28 min
August 06 Tactical Mindfulness | Curious Now 49
Managing our own attention at critical moments is one of the key elements of self-leadership, allowing us to control our reactions and focus rather than being controlled by it: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
Borrowing from Chris Voss’ idea of Tactical Empathy, Tactical Mindfulness is the idea that even if we don’t want to commit to a mindfulness practice, it still allows us to lead much more effectively when we’re aware of our own panic, fluster, target fixation, or task saturation. Rather than forcing others to navigate our reactions, by naming and noting them we can regain control and bring our best selves back to the team.
Workout of the week: When thoughts bubble up during a normal activity where you want to be paying attention, label them, accept them, and return to your attention.
Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/
#healthcaresimulation #nursing #medicine #debriefing #psychsafety
19 min
July 31 What Problems Do You Love? | Curious Now 48
How do we help our colleagues push through initial effort to focus into a realm where they feel like they have achieved flow and are doing their best work? : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822
A clear why, and a sense of working on problems that engage us, that matter to us, and that light us up, is the fuel or the wellspring of feeling like our jobs matter and that we matter in our jobs, and achieving those feelings of flow that make work tolerable or even satisfying.
Workout of the week: Identify one thing that draws you in so completely that time passes almost unnoticed, and ask yourself what about it are you actually enjoying?
Leadership Coaching from Jenny Rudolph: https://harvardmedsim.org/personal-leadership-coaching-with-jenny-rudolph/
#healthcaresimulation #nursing #medicine #debriefing #psychsafety
18 min

About The Center for Medical Simulation

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A nurse preceptor has just watched a trainee commit a serious error despite hours of lecture, reading, and hands on training. In spite of herself, she starts to heat up, much like the more severe clinical educators who trained her years ago. “Why can’t you just get this right?”

An ICU attending asks her resident to call her if a patient’s hematocrit drops under a certain value. Despite this agreement, and despite the patient deteriorating, the resident never calls. “Are you an idiot? Why didn’t you call me?”

In these moments, how do we reset ourself to a place of care, curiosity, and compassion? How do we model a better culture of learning? How do we have our judgment, instead of our judgment having us?

In “Curious Now with Jenny Rudolph,” a social scientist takes on the hidden structures that shape our behavior, culture, communication, and learning in healthcare.

In this interactive podcast, Jenny Rudolph, PhD, FSSH, will help listeners approach the thoughts, feelings, and judgments underlying their reactions in a psychologically safer manner, helping us to better connect with curiosity and compassion to the people around us, especially when we feel that they’ve done something “wrong.” This podcast will include weekly challenges to examine your own thinking, including follow-up with listeners and experts about their experience on the journey to Good Judgment.

Jenny Rudolph has made a career exploring what makes clinicians, healthcare organizations, and health professions training programs tick. Underneath the surface of intelligent, capable people who care about doing their best are hidden patterns that interfere with how they perform. Hierarchy, ego, communication glitches, resilience, power, professional learning, and how learning happens all flow downstream into creating actions that work and actions that don’t.

Jenny found out the hard way that being too certain can get you in trouble. Demoted from third to second grade for poor academic performance when she arrived in Jaipur, India as an eight-year-old, she realized she had better get curious about how her new school and culture ran, and that curiosity has remained with her ever since.

Jenny now works with clinicians around the world to help them develop their own love of that little dopamine drip of rewarding surprise when you find out something new about your colleagues and how they think. Whether trying to figure out a diagnosis, discovering what a learner is thinking, or upping your own clinical mastery, getting Curious Now is the solution.

Curious Now on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/72gzzWGegiXd9i2G6UJ0kP?si=890ed4b02bfe4838

Curious Now on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-center-for-medical-simulation/id1279266822

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Founded in 1993, the Center for Medical Simulation was one of the world's first healthcare simulation centers and continues to be a global leader in the field. Simulation training at CMS gives healthcare providers a new and enlightening perspective on how to handle real medical situations. Through high-fidelity scenarios that simulate genuine crisis management situations, the CMS experience can open new chapters in the level of healthcare quality that participants provide. Find out more and apply for CMS simulation workshops at www.harvardmedsim.org.