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Getting Ready to Choose New Sim Lab Equipment? Read This First. Getting Ready to Choose New Sim Lab Equipment? Read This First.

Overwhelmed by a Sim Lab Tech Upgrade? Here’s Everything You Need to Know

Are you a simulation technician tasked with choosing new technology for your simulation lab? And are you feeling overwhelmed by the task? Don’t panic. Choosing the best equipment for your sim lab—and getting it for the best price—can be as simple as scoring the perfect vacuum on Black Friday. Maybe even easier, because you won’t have to fight anyone for the last item on the shelf. Keep reading for tips on what you should consider when choosing new sim lab tools—and why the process might be easier than you think.

5 Reasons You Should Be Working with a Qualified AV Integrator 5 Reasons You Should Be Working with a Qualified AV Integrator

Qualified AV Integrators Can Save You Worry…and Money. Here’s How

Managing your company’s audiovisual system is a full-time job, even in the best of circumstances. And it can be more than a full-time job if you are constantly trouble shooting and repairing malfunctioning AV systems. All that time rushing from fire to fire takes time away from your day-to-day tasks and mission-driven work, and you end up burning the midnight oil—and eventually burning out. Instead of spending your time helping an unreliable AV system limp along, you can start your AV project off on the right foot, with a qualified integrator that can save you all that anxiety—and save you money, too.

How to Improve Patient Outcomes by Improving Teamwork How to Improve Patient Outcomes by Improving Teamwork

Good Patient Outcomes Depend on Effective Teamwork

The goal of every healthcare professional, from doctors and nurses to EMTs to pharmacists is the same: to provide positive outcomes for their patients. That goal, however, is not always easy to achieve. According to statistics reported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), around 400,000 hospitalized patients in the United States experience some kind of preventable harm every year. Improved medical training through high-fidelity healthcare simulation can go a long way in better preparing healthcare providers and therefore reducing errors and improving outcomes. But improving providers’ individual skills and competencies is only part of the equation. Healthcare providers also need to learn how to work together and communicate effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team to improve overall medical care outcomes. Level 3 Audiovisual hosts quarterly skills camps, focused on teamwork training for healthcare students and professionals. Keep reading to learn more about the model that will be presented—and the benefits it could bring to your simulation center.

How to Take the Chaos out of Your Sim Center Control Room How to Take the Chaos out of Your Sim Center Control Room

NEED TO REDUCE DISTRACTIONS IN YOUR SIMULATION CENTER?

Healthcare simulations are designed to prepare students for high-stakes medical situations. That means that while simulation exercises take place in a safe and controlled environment, they also need to replicate the chaos and urgency of a true medical emergency. When a “patient” codes or a barrage of trauma victims stretch participants to the limit, they’re learning about real-life stressors through healthcare simulation. One area of healthcare simulation that should be free from chaos and distraction, however, is the control room, where facilitators or simulation technicians monitor and run each scenario. Unfortunately, poor design and bad technology in your control room can create distractions that negatively impact simulations and learning. But good design and the right technology can help scenarios run smoothly and improve participants’ experience. Keep reading to learn more about control room distractions and solutions to prevent them.

Level 3 Audiovisual Named One of the Nation's Fastest-Growing Inner City Businesses Level 3 Audiovisual Named One of the Nation's Fastest-Growing Inner City Businesses

Level 3 Audiovisal, Ranking; #53

Mesa, Arizona, November 14th, 2019 - The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) announced that Mesa's Level 3 Audiovisual has made the 2019 Inner City 100 list of the fastest-growing inner city businesses in America based on revenue growth. The list was revealed at the 2019 ICIC National Conference in Boston on November 13. The full list is available on Fortune’s website. Level 3 Audiovisual, led by CEO Brad Peterson was ranked #53 based on its five-year growth rate of 111.04%. Its 2018 revenue was $5,426,571.39.

Are You CTS Certified? Here’s Why You Should Be. Are You CTS Certified? Here’s Why You Should Be.

THIS CERTIFICATION CAN BE A CAREER BOOST FOR SIM TECHS

As a healthcare simulation professional, your focus is providing training opportunities for healthcare students and professionals that will ultimately help them improve patient outcomes, and that takes a lot of different types of equipment. There are healthcare technologies such as manikins and vital sign monitors. There are AV technologies such as displays, cameras, speakers, and microphones. And much of that technology must interface with a larger IT network. Managing all those technologies and requirements, however, can take a sim tech’s focus away from running successful trainings, especially if you are unfamiliar with some of the tools in your healthcare simulation center.  For example, an EMT-turned-sim tech will be familiar with medical terminology and equipment, but might be completely lost when it comes to running the AV equipment that is a critical part of every healthcare simulation center. AV industry certifications such as the Certified Technology Specialist™ (CTS®) program can help sim techs round out their skill set and provide more comprehensive service to their healthcare simulation centers.

4 Video Collaboration Tools That Can Enhance Any Meeting Space 4 Video Collaboration Tools That Can Enhance Any Meeting Space

ARE YOUR VIDEO COLLABORATION ROOMS MISSING THESE MUST-HAVE TECHNOLOGIES?

The video conferencing market is estimated to reach more than $20 billion by 2024. In a marketplace that size, there is no shortage of solutions vying for your attention. Here are four types of video collaboration tools that deserve it. Check our list of what’s trending in conferencing and collaboration and why. Then talk to us about your video collaboration needs.

The Must-Have Credential for Any Simulation Center Integrator The Must-Have Credential for Any Simulation Center Integrator

WHY A CERTIFIED AV INTEGRATOR SHOULD INSTALL YOUR SIMULATION TECH

When you think of simulation centers, audiovisual may not be your first thought. But AV is as integral to the success of simulation centers as the life-like manikins receiving CPR. Virtually every aspect of learning—from recording scenarios to sharing video from vital sign monitors to enabling instructors and students to communicate from different rooms—relies on heavily integrated AV systems. Yet many healthcare simulation solution providers focus solely on simulation technology and outsource the AV design and installation to someone else. This approach leaves the door open for a lot of messy—and often expensive—complications. Without the right level of cooperation between the simulation and AV teams, you risk getting AV tools that can’t integrate with the simulation technology or AV tools that don’t meet your needs at all.

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