About LifeCareSim
The company behind Ponder™ simulation products
About LifeCareSim
The company behind Ponder™ simulation products
At LifeCareSim – Critical Thinking is our Game!
Welcome to LifeCareSim!
LifeCareSim is a company that offers unique board games geared to help stimulate critical thinking for healthcare professionals. Games are ideal for nursing schools or hospitals desiring to promote critical thinking. Games apply to many different specialty areas and some games may also be played with interdisciplinary teams and/or in combination with simulation mannequins of high or low fidelity.
Mission statement:
Our mission is to create interactive ways to engage students in active learning while stimulating critical thinking; to serve students and seasoned professionals alike; and to give educators innovative ways to bridge the gap between knowledge of content and the ability to apply that knowledge.
Current Products
Ponder: The Socratic Way™
Geared towards students and nurses in a medical-surgical specialty. The level is for students who have completed at least half of an adult health or medical-surgical course or are registered nurses. Engage students in class and clinical by playing an entire game or creating unfolding case studies for class–the game writes case studies for you!
Ponder™ Booster Pack Cards
Our first set of Booster Cards that have a concentrated focus on pharmacology, nutrition, and oxygenation will add an additional level of challenge to the original Ponder game.
NEW! Ponder ™ The Leadership Game
The Leadership Game is geared towards students in their final terms of nursing school, new graduates, and seasoned nurses. This game helps prepare learners for the role of charge nurses and managers, having to manage and prioritize multiple patients’ care and staff while facing different leadership challenges.
Games in Development
Ponder™ – The Socratic Way DIGITAL VERSION!
The digital version of the original game allows students to play from their computers from anywhere!
Ponder™ – The Call Light Game
Combined with low-fidelity mannequins in a nursing lab, this game supports Ponder: The Socratic Way™ to simulate a real nursing floor. Great interdisciplinary potential. Exciting news! I am looking for a school to help pilot this product. Please contact me at hbensin1@lifecaresim.net if you are interested.
Ponder™ – The Health Assessment Game
Geared towards introductory students learning to perform health assessment. This game needs further work so that it can be ramped up and geared towards advanced practice nursing and medical students.
Ponder™ – The Maternity/Newborn Game
This game takes students through the labor, delivery, postpartum, and newborn experience. Coming soon!
About Dr. Hallie Bensinger
I am an advanced practice nurse and former instructor/assistant professor for ten years with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Nursing. I have been a nurse since 1986.
The Ponder (TM) the Socratic Way Story:
Accolades
- Received the Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society Theta Beta Chapter at Large Excellence in Teaching Award 2013. This is an award bestowed on someone by his or her peers.
- Received the Student Government Association Executive Council Excellence in Teaching Award 2010-2011, 2013-2014 and nominated for the award in 2012. This is an award presented to an instructor who is nominated and voted on by students.
- Runner-up Best in Show at the International Medical Simulation in Healthcare Serious Games and Virtual Environment and Showcase in the Faculty/Staff Division for The Call Light Game, January 2014 in San Francisco.