Friday Night at the ER

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A Simulation Tool for Team Learning

Purpose & Description

Friday Night in the ER simulation activity

The Friday Night at the ER team-learning game is a simulation tool. It's a board game that is played at tables of four players each. The game teaches people to:

consider the effects of their decisions on the larger system,
to collaborate across functional boundaries with an openness to redesign, and
to develop sound data on which to base decisions.

Resources needed

Any group whose members must work together to improve performance
Minimum group size is 4; maximum is 200
Requires a skilled facilitator or instructor

Instructions

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Debriefing

Alternate instructions & debriefing

Power Point of Instructions with Debriefing Questions - With Permission

Tool Experts

I wanted to share a technique I used to set up the ER games. We partially set up the games, i.e. spread the playing mat, placed the items such as the timer, flipchart, drawing cards, glass bead holders and bags of beads on the tables.

We set each set of storage envelopes underneath each table so they'd be readily available at the end of the game and make it easy to keep each set together.

At the beginning of the session the facilitator went through each hospital department instructing the "director" on how to set up the beads/patients in their department.

This allowed each player to get familiar with the board set up and cut the set up time down tremendously.

At the end of the game, the facilitator handed the instruction the for putting the game away to each table. The games were properly put away in no time.

Hope this is helpful.