580-18-2-083-0026 Nurses Simulation Training Supply/Materials Kit VA256-18-AP-4192

January 31, 2018





To whom it may concern:



This letter has been written to confirm that Friday Night at the ER, is a sole source product. The product is assembled and sold exclusively by Breakthrough Learning Inc.



Breakthrough Learning maintains all copyright privileges for their products and these products must be purchased directly from the company.



If you require additional information, please contact me at the number below, or by e-mail, jeff@blearning.com





Regards,







Jeff Heil

Chief Operating Officer

(503) 343-2034 direct

(888) 802-6808 office



Breakthrough Learning 412 NW Couch St., Suite 302 Portland OR, 97209 888.802.6808 www.fridaynightattheer.com

STATEMENT OF WORK (SOW)



Purpose:



This Statement of Work is presented, as requested, to launch Break Through Learning for the Friday Night at the ER team-learning simulation to support a need to broadly teach leaders/employees to think systemically, to collaborate across functional boundaries to achieve system goals. The concept is to create an experiential learning tool that would engage employees in a learning process; simulate and illustrate dynamics that are common to complex systems, and promote an understanding of key systems principles in a way that enables people to gain insight about their relevance. Since its initial release in 1992, simulation has met diverse learning needs and served a wide range of objectives beyond this initial purpose. The VA Michael E. DeBakey Medical Center setting is familiar to nearly everyone. People who work in other industries or live in diverse cultures readily understand the core processes and interdependencies that simulation represents and find them universally relevant.



Goal:



The Friday Night at the ER simulation is versatile- useful to employees with varied levels of knowledge, adaptable to suit a variety of specific objectives and suitable with small or large groups. Improve collaboration across care/service lines, prepare groups for a major change initiative, clarify success factors and support leadership development in areas such as self-directed work teams, customer satisfaction, conflict management, change management and team building.



Description:



The BREAKTHROUGH LEARNING offers a solution to prepare leader(s) to successfully use the Friday Night at the ER simulation with an opportunity to practice concepts and procedures, as well as provide an opportunity to practice analysis, problem solving, fault detection and correction, and decision-making within instructional environments that appropriately align with desired learning outcomes. This approach is to get leaders or training staff up to speed with best practices.



The Friday Night at the ER experience has proven useful for meeting a variety of team- building needs. The shared experience can bring together individuals who have not worked together. Certainly, one of the fundamental principles taught by the simulation is that individuals in a system are interdependent, and individual performance is enhanced by teamwork.