Sentinel City® Canada
Practice Community and Population Health in a Virtual Canadian Environment
Practice Community and Population Health in a Virtual Canadian Environment
Simulation-Based Learning for Canadian Nursing Schools
Sentinel City® Canada, is an online learning platform that teaches community and population health through an engaging and rewarding screen-based virtual experience based in a virtual Canadian setting. Students practice critical thinking, observation, and professional caring of a client population in a risk-free environment. Originally developed to teach nursing students how to conduct windshield surveys, Sentinel City® Canada now includes 22 assignments and our Family Support and Home Assessment® virtual clinical scenario.
Many clients map this simulation to their Community or Population Health Nursing courses, and while the hours and activities within the model are almost limitless, most clients use Sentinel City® Canada to earn about 30 hours for each of their learners.
Faculty members enjoy the variety that comes with the Clinical Activity Catalog; this virtual city can cover anything from community assessments and infection prevention and control issues to natural disasters and population-focused interventions.
Sentinel City® Canada can be used for a variety of assignments throughout a term, course, or entire program.
Sentinel City® Canada aligns with CASN entry-to-practice PHN competencies and INACSL’s Standard of Best Practice
Learners can earn 5-30+ simulated clinical hours
Available for Fall Term
Features include:
13 diverse Canadian citizens (including Indigenous, Black Canadian, 2SLGBTQ+)
18 Canadian locations with 100+ sets of unique Canadian data and demographics
“Camera” and notes wizard for recording observations; name and date-stamp verify student integrity
Family Support and Home Assessment with Health Plan
Clinical Activities Catalog includes 22 easily implemented clinical activities with assessment methods
Admin Portal with access to activity reports
Detailed faculty guide complete with Quick Start Guide, Troubleshooting, Teaching Suggestions, FAQs, and more
Sample pre-brief and debriefing questions with each clinical activity
Sentinel City® can be used for a variety of assignments throughout a term, course or entire program.
Clinical activities available for Sentinel City® Canada:
Family Assessment and Family Health Plan
Home Safety Assessment and Health Plan
Community Assessment- Windshield
Social Determninants of Health for Indigenous Peoples
Anti-racist Nursing Practice
Economic and Health Inequities
Matching Health and Social Services with Client Needs
Building Healthy Public Policy
Immunization Planning Meeting
Global Health Pandemic
Many More
Community and Health Subsystem Assignments
- Physical environment (climate change, air pollution, green space, abandoned buildings)
- Safety & Transportation (improvements, emergency management, regional transportation, crime
- prevention, current transportation)
- Health care (public health, primary care, public hospitals, Indigenous community health centre)
- Education (early childhood education, adult education, reduce inequities, safe spaces)
- Recreation (bike lanes & cycling infrastructure, facilities, activities and classes, homeless)
- Politics (budget cut & taxes, biggest challenge, goals, issues)
- Communication (collaboration, new & proposed policies, complaint, citizen help)
- Economics (homelessness & food insecurity, local job market, local small business, low-income housing)
ALIGN℠ – Community Health Course Digital Teaching Resources
Alleviate the stress and time involved with course and content development and get a ready-made and easily adoptable digital community health course as an add-on to Sentinel City® and Sentinel Town®. This course provides nurse educators with 16 weeks of content that perfectly align with community health course curriculum standards, eliminating the need for textbooks.
Multi-Site Study Finds Sentinel City® Produces Positive Learning Outcomes for Nursing Students
Researchers conducted a multi-site study that revealed participants demonstrated high confidence in many areas, including communication, collaboration, and leadership; legal, ethical, and professional accountability; and critical thinking.
Meet a Sample of the Citizens:
Leslie
Leslie Joe Callie is a 67-year-old advocate for 2SLGBTQ+ rights, who also deals with chronic pain.
Pierre
Pierre Duval is a minister who spends his spare time volunteering and trying to improve the community.
Christy
Christy Gladue is part of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation of indigenous peoples. She is very involved with her culture and has an interconnected family.
Gary
Gary Johnson is a teenager in the foster care system, who regularly runs away due to abuse.
Anastasia
Anastasia Harriet Gibson has seven children and is very active in her community and intergenerational family. She worries about the effects of systemic racism on her kids.
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