Sharon Mascarenhas
Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator - Advanced Contact FacultySharon Mascarenhas is a health professions educator with over 17 years of experience in healthcare and education. Equipped with valuable simulation-based expertise and experience in nursing, she is committed to fostering an environment that provides enriching encounters to learners.
She is a Pediatric Simulation Fellow with the International Pediatric Simulation Society & INSPIRE and a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator – Advanced with the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. She is an American Heart Association Training Center Faculty for Basic Life Support and First Aid programs. She is naturally drawn to projects on community engagement, communication, and debriefing.
She loves the outdoors, travel, good music, reading, exotic food, and her family.
Academic Appointments
Senior Simulation Educator
Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, UAE.
Lecturer - College of Nursing and Midwifery
Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, UAE.
Simulation Educator
Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai, UAE.
Training Coordinator
Eduscope International, Dubai, UAE
Training Officer
Eduscope International, Dubai, UAE
Lecturer
Victor Medical and Research foundation, College of Nursing, Goa, India
Clinical Instructor
K.L.E. Society’s Institute of Nursing Sciences, Belgaum, India
Staff Nurse
K.L.E Hospital and Research Centre, India
Professional Education
Master of Science in Nursing
Leelabai Thackeray College of Nursing, SNDT Women’s University, India
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
K.L.E.S institute of Nursing Sciences, Rajiv Gandhi University, India
Teaching
- Teaching Acute Care of the Patient with Cardiovascular Illness including Surgery and Interventional Procedures and Specialist Cardiovascular Nursing of Patients with Heart Failure, Arrhythmia, and Inherited Disease- cardiac module, Care of the Critically Ill Child- pediatric module to postgraduate nursing students
- Teaching Principles of Bioethics, General Microbiology, and Basic Life Support to undergraduate medical students
- Teaching Communication Skills in dental practice, clinical skills, and management of Medical Emergencies in Dental Practice and Pediatric Medical Emergencies to postgraduate dental residents
- Teaching Intramuscular injection administration, Basic clinical skills, Communication skills, Infection prevention & control, Assessment & Management of emergencies in schools, and Debriefing, to healthcare professionals
- Mentoring undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students in dissertations and research projects
- Teaching obstetrical and gynecological nursing and community health nursing to undergraduate nursing students
- Teaching Simulation-Based Education Methodology as part of faculty development
- Practice Placement audits and training and preparation of practice supervisors
- Deliver didactic lectures and clinical skill demonstrations in various medical and nursing-related procedures as part of CME / CPD programs to healthcare professionals
- Assessor for Multiple Mini Interviews at MBRU
- Assessor for Nursing candidate interviews at MBRU
- Assessor for OSCE (Nursing & Medicine)
Honors and Awards
Invited as Subject Matter Expert
Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) International Practice Analysis workshop
International Pediatric Simulation Society(IPSS) & INSPIRE
Pediatric Simulation Fellow
Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator – Advanced
Simulation in Healthcare (SSH)
Excellence Award for Dubai Innovates Competition
Dubai Quality Group & Expo 2020
Training Center Faculty - Basic Life Support
American Heart Association
Publications
Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations
- International Pediatric Simulation Society (IPSS) USA – Member
- Society for Simulation in Healthcare USA – Member
- CHSE Blueprint Review Advisory Team USA – Member
- Society of Mid Wives Pune Chapter, India – Member
- ‘Tarangan’ Alumni Association of LTCN, Mumbai, India – Member
- Karnataka state Nursing & Midwifery council India – Member
- Trained Nurses Association of India – Member
Research Interests
- Communication in healthcare
- Debriefing
- Community Engagement Using Simulation
Clinical and Community Service
- Lead for MBRU’s Teddy bear hospital Initiative
- Past Lead for destination medicine at MBRU in collaboration with AI Jalila
- Foundation
- Core team member for initiating dental Teddy bear hospital
- Facilitate the PULSE community engagement program, and Estedaad Program at MBRU
- Initiated Human Library Project with the AMML Library team
- Lead the world handwashing day event at MBRU
- Certified Examiner for Midwifery and Obstetrics (2008 – 2011) for BSC Nursing at Goa Responsible for assessment and evaluation for practical and theory examinations
- Chairperson Board of Examiner for Midwifery and Obstetrics Nursing (2010 – 2011) for BSC Nursing at Goa University
- NSS coordinator Victor Medical and Research Foundation, College of Nursing, Goa, India
