Standards & Evidence Framework

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Every clinical scenario, learning objective, and assessment in WARDWISE is designed and validated against the published guidelines, frameworks, and research of globally recognised authorities in clinical practice, nursing education, simulation science, health informatics, and artificial intelligence in healthcare.

Section 1

Clinical Practice Guidelines

All 52 WARDWISE clinical scenarios are designed and validated against the most current published evidence in each specialty. Scenarios are reviewed whenever major guideline revisions are issued by the issuing body.

Cardiac
Cardiac
AHA/ACC Heart Failure Guidelines
American Heart Association / American College of Cardiology
2022
Cardiac
AHA/ACC STEMI Management Guidelines
American Heart Association / American College of Cardiology
2023
Cardiac
AHA/ACC Atrial Fibrillation Guidelines
American Heart Association / American College of Cardiology
2023
Cardiac
AHA/ACC Valvular Heart Disease Guidelines
American Heart Association / American College of Cardiology
2021
Cardiac
SCAI Cardiogenic Shock Classification
Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions
2019 / Updated 2022
Cardiac
ESC Pericardial Disease Guidelines
European Society of Cardiology
2015
Respiratory
Respiratory
GOLD COPD Guidelines
Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease
2023
Respiratory
GINA Asthma Guidelines
Global Initiative for Asthma
2023
Respiratory
IDSA Community-Acquired Pneumonia Guidelines
Infectious Diseases Society of America / ATS
2019
Respiratory
AHA/ASA Pulmonary Embolism Guidelines
American Heart Association / ESC
2019
Respiratory
ARDSnet Lung-Protective Ventilation Protocol
ARDS Network — NEJM Low Tidal Volume Trial
2000 / Berlin Definition 2012
Sepsis
Sepsis
Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines
Society of Critical Care Medicine / European Society of Intensive Care Medicine
2021
Sepsis
Hour-1 Bundle for Sepsis Management
Surviving Sepsis Campaign
2018 / Revised 2021
Sepsis
IDSA Bacterial Meningitis Guidelines
Infectious Diseases Society of America
2004 / Updated 2017
Neurological
Neurological
AHA/ASA Acute Ischaemic Stroke Guidelines
American Heart Association / American Stroke Association
2019 / Updated 2022
Neurological
AHA/ASA Intracerebral Haemorrhage Guidelines
American Heart Association / American Stroke Association
2022
Neurological
AES Status Epilepticus Guidelines
American Epilepsy Society — ESETT Trial Evidence
2016
Neurological
PADIS ICU Delirium Guidelines
Society of Critical Care Medicine — Pain, Agitation, Delirium, Immobility, Sleep
2018
Obstetric
Obstetric
ACOG Preeclampsia Practice Bulletin 222
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
2020
Obstetric
ACOG Postpartum Haemorrhage Guidelines
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
2017
Obstetric
WHO Obstetric Emergency Guidelines
World Health Organization
2023
Section 2

Nursing Education & Simulation Design

Clinical scenario pedagogy, learning objectives, debriefing frameworks, and assessment design are grounded in the following educational standards and evidence-based frameworks.

Clinical Judgment
NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model (CJMM)
National Council of State Boards of Nursing — NGN/NCLEX Alignment Framework. Authority: Donna D. Ignatavicius, MS, RN, CNE, CNEcl, ANEF, FAADN.
NGN — Current Cycle
Simulation Design
INACSL Standards of Best Practice: Simulation
International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning. Covers simulation design, facilitation, debriefing, and outcomes evaluation.
2021
Debriefing
PEARLS Debriefing Framework
Promoting Excellence and Reflective Learning in Simulation. Structured post-simulation debriefing across Reactions, Events, Analysis, Learning, and Summary phases.
Established Standard
Training Quality
ISO 10015:2019 — Competence Management & Training
International Organization for Standardization. Guidelines for quality management of competence development and people development programmes.
2019
Talent Development
ATD Capability Model
Association for Talent Development. Professional competency standard for learning and development practitioners worldwide.
Current Edition
Outcomes Evaluation
Kirkpatrick Model of Training Evaluation
Kirkpatrick Partners. Four-level framework: Reaction, Learning, Behaviour, Results. The New World Kirkpatrick Model guides WARDWISE outcome assessment design.
Updated Edition
Philippine Nursing
ANA Scope and Standards of Practice
American Nurses Association. Governs WARDWISE assessment scoring and clinical decision-making framework for Philippine and international nursing standards.
4th Edition
Philippine Nursing
NNCCS 2012 — National Nursing Core Competency Standards
Philippine Nursing Act — Professional Regulation Commission. Governs all competency frameworks applied to the Philippine nursing market.
2012
Section 3

Health Informatics & AI for Healthcare

Platform architecture, data governance, and AI feature design are informed by the following international standards and published research frameworks from leading health informatics and AI institutions.

Information Security
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 — Information Security Management
International Organization for Standardization / International Electrotechnical Commission. The global standard for information security management systems.
2022
Software Quality
ISO/IEC 25010:2023 — Software Quality Requirements
International Organization for Standardization. Systems and software quality requirements and evaluation (SQuaRE).
2023
Accessibility
WCAG 2.1 AA — Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Platform accessibility standard for all WARDWISE user interfaces.
Level AA
Responsible AI
Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) Guidelines
CHAI — Stanford / Microsoft / Partners. Framework for the responsible development and deployment of AI in healthcare settings.
Current
Data Governance
FAIR Data Principles
Wilkinson et al. / GO FAIR Initiative. Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable — the foundational principles governing WARDWISE health data architecture.
2016 / Current
Interoperability
HL7 FHIR R4 — Healthcare Interoperability Standard
Health Level Seven International. Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources — the foundational standard for healthcare data exchange and institutional integration.
R4 / R4B
Section 4

Regulatory & Compliance Frameworks

WARDWISE is designed for institutional use in the Philippines and the United Arab Emirates. Platform design and data handling are aligned with the following regulatory frameworks.

Philippines
RA 10173 — Data Privacy Act of the Philippines
National Privacy Commission — Republic of the Philippines. Governs the collection, processing, and storage of personal and institutional data for all Philippine users.
2012
Philippines
CHED CMO No. 14 s. 2009 — BSN Nursing Education Standards
Commission on Higher Education, Philippines. Governs Philippine BSN curriculum alignment, competency frameworks, and RLE documentation standards for CareLog.
2009
UAE
UAE Federal Data Protection Law
UAE Ministry of Justice. Governs personal data processing and protection for all UAE-based institutional users of WARDWISE.
2021
UAE
DOH Abu Dhabi — Clinical Competency Documentation
Department of Health — Abu Dhabi. WARDWISE analytics and export formats are designed for compatibility with DOH institutional competency reporting requirements.
Current
A note on attribution

WARDWISE does not claim endorsement by any of the organisations listed on this page. These standards, guidelines, and frameworks are publicly published references that inform our clinical content design, simulation pedagogy, and platform architecture. All clinical scenario content is reviewed against current versions of these guidelines and updated when major revisions are issued. EverTails Lab maintains full accountability for all content published within the platform.

See the standards in action.

Every WARDWISE scenario applies these guidelines at the decision level — not just as a reference list, but as the evidence base for every scored clinical action.

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