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Welcome, Martha Robichaud!

Martha Robichaud joins the SON this week as standardized patient program coordinator for simulation education. Welcome, Martha!

In Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine: Reality Check

Associate Dean Kristen Brown has seen the opportunities an education can bring and is determined that no student under her watch will miss them. That attitude is built into the decision-making on new tech for her Center for Simulation & Immersive Learning. “Everybody is going to want to sell you on the next big thing,” Brown says. 

One thing Brown is sold on is the XR Learning Hub, a pilot education platform she’s fine-tuning at JHSON that combines her clinical experience and passion for immersive learning with cutting-edge tech to fix common issues with clinical training for students. Her aim is to make clinical experiences more flexible, available, and—the big key—controllable. “You can’t predict what situations a learner will encounter while on a clinical rotation, but with simulation, you can make sure they are exposed to what they need and must see.”

The XR Hub is a virtual space that allows the learner to engage with faculty and then travel through portals to environments, such as the hospital bedside, and experience care through the eyes of a provider, of course, but also a patient.

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Quotations for 2025

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” —Chief Seattle, leader of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes

“You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That’s how prayer works.” —Pope Francis

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” —Artist Pablo Picasso

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