Simulation as a pedagogical method in a lifelong learning perspective.

After a long period of distance and home office for part of the sector and increased activity and restructuring of activities for another part of the sector, it will be useful to have a foot on the ground now. We need both to look back at the experiences we have gained within the education and health sectors when it comes to changing studies and practice during the COVID pandemic, and look ahead to discuss how we can use these experiences in the future. We have seen how nursing education has had to change, shift or shorten practice courses and how the health services have had to turn around and adapt their operations to new realities that came with the pandemic. How did we do this? What role did or could simulation training play in such a situation? What experiences have you gained that we can share, learn from and take with us further? We want to discuss in more detail how simulation can function as a tool for skill enhancement and lifelong learning both in an extraordinary situation and in a longer perspective with more ordinary operations. The pandemic experiences have again shown how important it is to work cross-functionally, carry out mass training and practice for unforeseen situations. Can we work even more systematically with this in collaboration between education and the health sector, and at the same time take a step further where the theory-practice gap is illuminated from both the education side and the practice side?