Course Catalog

We offer STAR courses at our onsite center located on the West Penn Hospital Campus, online and at your facility through our Mobile Outreach Program. We also develop customized courses according to your learning needs.

The course catalog is updated quarterly. If interested in any courses, please email simulation@ahn.org or call (412) 578-7827 for more information.

• Anesthesia
  • Airway Management for Advanced Practice Practitioners
  • Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesia (MOCA)
  • Introduction to Anesthesia Simulation for First Year Clinical Anesthesia Residents (CA1)
• Assessment / Communication
  • Burns
• Certification Courses
  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)/Basic Life Support (BLS)
• Emergency Department / Intensive Care
  • Cardioversion in the ICU/ED
  • Communication in the Emergency Department: Patient and Family Centered Approach
  • Difficult Airway in the Emergency Department
  • ECMO Training
  • Open Chest Resuscitation of the Post Cardiac Surgery Patient
  • Pediatric Codes in the Emergency Department for AHN
  • Precipitous Birth in the Emergency Department
  • Procedural Sedation for Pediatric Patients in the Emergency Department
• Emergency Medicine
  • Foundations of Emergency Medicine for Senior Medical Students
  • Simulation-Based Core Skills for Emergency Medicine Residents
• Escape Rooms
  • Falls Escape Room
  • Medication Safety Virtual Escape Room
  • Escape Room: Patient Safety Room of Errors
• Infusion Therapy
  • Central Line Insertion for Advanced Providers
  • Implanted Port Accessing and De-Accessing Course
  • Intravenous (IV) Therapy Curriculum for the Licensed Practice Nurse (LPN)
  • Intravenous Therapy Course for AHN Licensed Practice Nurses (LPN)
  • Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Intravenous (IV) Catheter Insertion
• Medication Safety
  • Medication Safety In-Situ Simulation Cart
• Mock Codes
• Nursing Procedures
  • Urinary Catheter Insertion and Maintenance Course
  • Phlebotomy Course
• Obstetrics
  • Code “O” Obstetrics Simulation
• Online / Video Courses
  • Handoff Communication Course
  • Patient Safety – One Room at a Time
• Pediatrics
  • Pediatric Mock Codes
• Security Onboarding Simulation Course
• Simulation Continuing Education
  • Client Event Debriefing
  • Debriefing Experienced Learners
  • Prebriefing / Debriefing 2.0
  • Course Facilitator Onboarding Learning Pathway for STAR Center
  • Prebriefing and Debriefing Essentials Course
• Surgery / Trauma
  • Fire in the Operating Room
  • Malignant Hyperthermia
  • Oral Maxillary Facial Surgery Simulations
• Simulation in the Perioperative Environment
  • Unanticipated Difficult Airway for Perioperative Nurses and Scrub Techs
• Specialty Areas
  • Cardiac Cath Lab Simulation Day
  • Simulation Prior to Opening a New Clinical Area
  • Radiology Contrast Reaction Simulations
• STEMM
  • Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medical (STEMM) Program