HealthCareSim gives your students actual EHR experience — scanning barcodes, calculating doses, cosigning controlled substances, documenting assessments — so they arrive at clinical with muscle memory, not just memorized steps.
HealthCareSim is not a simplified teaching toy or a repurposed hospital system. It's a simulation platform designed from the ground up for nursing education — by a nurse educator who builds what she teaches with every day.
From finding the medication to calculating the dose, wasting the excess, scanning the barcode, documenting vitals, getting a cosign, and administering the medication — HCS provides the full workflow nurses actually perform, not a shortcut version of it.
HCS includes hundreds of flowsheet items, five auto-scoring CDSTs, rich-text notes, wound/line/drain tracking, and a full results inbox — the depth students will encounter in practice.
Add a new order mid-sim. Release a lab result at the clinically relevant moment. Toggle a wound on or off. HCS features searchable, instant control over every element — no restarts needed.
Your own data, your own website, your own branding. Your data never touches another school's system. HCS enforces enterprise-grade isolation most simulation tools don't offer.
Other tools simplify medication administration into a checkbox exercise. HealthCareSim walks students through every step real nurses take, building the habits that prevent errors.
Whether you use a Pyxis, rolling tool chest, divided filing cabinet, or even something as basic as a fishing tackle box, it doesn't matter. HCS adapts to your physical storage layout so students can see exactly where each medication is stored.
Every step in the real medication administration process, practiced exactly as it happens in the hospital.
Find the medication
Auto-computed dose and waste across forms of medication
Excess wasted with witnessed cosignature
Barcode validates medication against active orders
Required vitals and parameters captured first
Cosigner authenticates for dual verification
Timing enforced, route and dose confirmed
Find the medication
Auto-computed dose and waste across forms of medication
Excess wasted with witnessed cosignature
Barcode validates medication against active orders
Required vitals and parameters captured first
Cosigner authenticates for dual verification
Timing enforced, route and dose confirmed
HealthCareSim flowsheets are robust and comprehensive. Add unlimited records for your patients across hundreds of assessment items. The depth and structure replicate real clinical documentation so simulation translates directly to practice.
HealthCareSim's rich-text notes cover the full spectrum of clinical documentation, from nursing and provider notes to H&Ps, consults, significant events, and beyond, all filterable by discipline. Results work the same way: labs, imaging, pathology, and more are organized by category with acknowledgment workflows built in. Students navigate the same information landscape they'll face in practice.
In real clinical practice, new orders require active acknowledgment before they're carried out. HealthCareSim enforces the same process.
Order enters the chart
Student confirms awareness
Action carried out and documented
Metoprolol 25mg PO BID
Penicillin — Anaphylaxis
DNR / DNI
PT consult, advance diet as tolerated
HealthCareSim supports fully detailed medication orders, allergy documentation with automatic visual flagging, configurable code status, and free-text miscellaneous orders for consults, diet, activity, and beyond. Non-standard allergies and non-Full-Code statuses are prominently highlighted so students can't miss critical safety information.
HealthCareSim lets you build any clinical scenario then run it simultaneously across every group on your schedule. Simple controls allow facilitators to change the patient's chart in real time while students work.
Choose between team simulations where students share documentation or set up solo practice simulations where students work on their own.
Show or hide any order, note, result, flowsheet entry, wound, or device during a running simulation with searchable, instant control panels.
Run named instances of the same scenario simultaneously: Group A, Group B, Group C - each with their own clock and independent patient information.
Build realistic multi-patient assignments. ICU with three patients, med-surg with four... students manage the full cognitive load.
Pre-load notes, results, flowsheet entries, and orders at specific simulated times. Scenarios start with realistic patient charting history.
Set the simulated clock to any time. Run day shift, evening, or night scenarios with all timing logic adjusted automatically.
Co-Founder & Lead Developer
RN, BSN, MSN (Nursing Informatics)
Clinical background in Oncology, Telemetry, Behavioral Health & Hospice
Clinical Assistant Professor, Boise State University
Lab Innovator and Lab & Simulation course coordinator,
undergraduate nursing program
HealthCareSim wasn't designed in a boardroom or spec'd by a product committee. It was built by a nursing professor teaching in the simulation lab every day who got tired of working around the limitations of tools that weren't made for her classroom.
Christine brings a background in Computer Science, a Bachelor's in Nursing, and a Master's in Nursing Informatics to every feature in the platform. She spent years at the bedside before moving into education, and that rare combination of clinical experience and technical fluency is what makes HealthCareSim different. When she designed the medication administration workflow, she wasn't guessing what nurses need to practice. She was building the tool she wished she had during her own nursing education.
That's why HealthCareSim feels different. The flowsheets have the right items because a real nurse chose them. The instructor controls exist because a real simulation educator needed them mid-scenario. The cosignature workflows mirror the real thing because someone who's actually performed dual-nurse verification built them that way.
This isn't a software company's interpretation of clinical education. It's a clinical educator's software, built with the precision of someone who writes code, the knowledge of someone who teaches students, and the compassion of a nurse who has held the hands of hospice patients, cared for oncology patients through their hardest days, and monitored cardiac rhythms on the telemetry floor. That care shows up in every detail of the platform.
HealthCareSim gives every nursing program a private, customized environment. Your logo, your colors, your scenarios... and none of your data ever touches another school's system.
Students see your institution, not ours.
Most simulation EHRs reduce clinical practice to a series of clicks. HealthCareSim is designed to develop the critical thinking, prioritization, and clinical judgment that keep patients safe.
Students don't just follow prompts - they assess, prioritize, and make decisions. HealthCareSim is designed from the ground up to help students make the necessary connections between patient symptoms, pathophysiology and their nursing interventions.
Multi-patient assignments, cosignature workflows, overdue medication flags, and acknowledgment-driven views teach students to manage the cognitive demands of real nursing. They also learn a lesson that catches many new nurses off guard: if it isn't documented well, it didn't happen, and the rest of the care team never sees it.
Instructor-defined patient histories, scenario-timed content releases, and cooperative documentation modes let faculty build teachable moments into the simulation itself, making every simulation a rich learning environment.
Schedule a personalized demo with the educator who built HCS. We'll walk through a live scenario, show you the instructor tools, and answer questions with zero pressure.