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Company: Sentinel U®
Nomination Submitted by: O'Connell & Goldberg PR
Company Description: Sentinel U® is a leading provider of health care simulations and learning innovations for nursing students and healthcare professionals. Its authentic virtual simulations and clinical experiences are the best practice in engaging learners in real-world scenarios to gain unparalleled clinical judgement and critical thinking experience.
Nomination Category: New Product & Service Categories - Education
Nomination Sub Category: Virtual Learning Solution
 Nomination Title: Sentinel U® Sentinel City v.5
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Product: Sentinel City® v.5 (U.S. and Canada)
Update Released: July 19, 2021
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Sentinel City® is a simulation-based nursing education program offering healthcare students the ability to obtain astonishingly realistic clinical experience – anywhere, any time. Think, “The Sims,” but for nursing education.
Limited accessibility, safety issues, and lack of time have long made it difficult for healthcare educators and students to secure in-person clinical practice. Developed by Sentinel U®, Sentinel City aims to overcome these challenges by providing a way to earn simulated clinical hours.
To develop the program, the team worked in tandem with nursing deans and faculty to ensure it mapped to modern nursing objectives, competencies, industry standards and best practices. The resulting platform is an award-winning, immersive digital replica of a city with an extensive healthcare system, transit routes, pharmacy, day care, soup kitchen, citizens, doctors, nurses and more. Using their avatar, students can travel around the city, interact with citizens and medical staff – and their results are driven by real-world datasets and demographics. The simulation’s wide variety of settings helps learners build confidence in areas which are particularly hard to obtain hands-on practice.
For educators, the platform features a portal which aggregates student data and houses comprehensive resources like a faculty guide, searchable assignment catalog, and grading rubrics. Via the assignment catalog, faculty can cover a wide variety of scenarios such as community assessments, infection prevention, natural disasters, and population-focused interventions.
The latest version of Sentinel City, released in July 2021, boasts increasingly diverse neighborhoods with a wider demographic of community residents – from geriatric to pediatric – and from different socio-economic levels. The upgraded technology and additional content offers an unparalleled user experience, and incorporates over 100 comprehensive, real-world datasets.
Ultimately, Sentinel City allows nursing students to develop advanced observation techniques and cultivate critical thinking skills – directly from their personal device. Its thoughtful design improves healthcare education by fostering clinical judgment skills within contemporary healthcare situations, and simulating scenarios that learners will actually encounter in the field.
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When Sentinel City® was first presented at nurse educator conferences, the reception was overwhelmingly positive. There was a clear need for this technology, and the team has been on a mission to create the best clinical simulation software on the market ever since.
Today, Sentinel U’s virtual clinicals have been used by more than 200 schools and healthcare organizations across the U.S. and Canada. Since the start of 2020, Sentinel U has sold nearly 60,000 licenses and delivered over 130,000 learner experiences. And in 2020, Sentinel U was named an EdTech Award finalist for its virtual clinicals.
Further indicating the program’s success, during the inaugural Sentinel U Nursing Simulation Research Grant (SUNSRG) program, Sentinel U received numerous applications to utilize the company’s cutting-edge education technology for nursing education research, ultimately selecting seven recipients – including the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida and the University of Kansas Health System.
Students have said Sentinel City is “very easy to use and fun,” “more realistic than I anticipated,” “provides a sense of involvement,” and is a “positive learning experience that brought with it a new way to visualize and interpret the surrounding community.” According to faculty, Sentinel City is “a tremendous tool for our students and a wonderful vehicle for us to teach about community nursing,” and “allowed me to know exactly what the students were viewing so that I could draw connections between their reading and what they were seeing.”
During a 2020 study at Dalhousie University School of Nursing in Nova Scotia, Canada, the school measured students’ perceived learning outcomes between in-person clinical placements and Sentinel City. Students were randomly assigned to one of three clinical placements: Sentinel City, community agency or low-income neighborhood. The Sentinel City group indicated the highest confidence that they were able to meet the course learning objectives. Additionally, all students felt that all future students should be exposed to Sentinel City before moving into agencies or neighborhoods. Today, Sentinel City is used by nursing schools across North America, and is revered as a best-in-market training tool.
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