S32 - Bias in Simulation Participants, Design, and Facilitation: Mitigation Using the INACSL Standards

Saturday, June 21, 2025

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM MST

Location: PC 4/5

Lead Author(s)

Nichole Brown, PhD(c), MSN, RN, CHSE-A

Sr. Simulation Education Specialist
Cleveland Clinic
Solon, Ohio, United States
Lisa A. Brown, MSN, CHSE, RN

Sr. Simulation Education Specialist
Cleveland Clinic Martin Health
Port St Lucie, FL, United States

Disclosure(s):

Maureen Washock, BSN, RN, CPN, CHSE: No financial relationships to disclose

Lisa A. Brown, MSN, CHSE, RN: No financial relationships to disclose

Upon completing the workshop, participants will be able to identify one source of implicit, explicit, and hierarchal bias in simulation participants, facilitators, and design in a given example simulation experience.
Upon completion of the workshop, participants will apply strategies in alignment with INACSL Standards of Best Practice to mitigate bias in each simulation experience through a course exemplar.
Upon completion of the workshop, participants will be able to verbalize how unmitigated bias in simulation participants, facilitators, and design impacts outcomes of their own curriculum through facilitated discussion.
Upon completing the workshop, participants will be able to discuss at least one mitigation strategy aligning with INACSL Standards of Best Practice to improve outcomes in their own curriculum.