This strategy allows graduate APRN students to practice principles of palliative communication for patients with chronic illness disease trajectory through an unfolding, two-scenario high fidelity simulation of the same patient.Continue reading
Tag: Skills or Simulation Laboratories
Simulation of Skills Fair Day
Each clinical semester, beginning in semester 2 of this concept-based curriculum, students learn skills that complement exemplars learned through didactic lecture and the clinical experience. The simulation of skills dayContinue reading
An Interprofessional Simulation of Opioid Overdose in the Community and Acute Care Setting
This simulation utilizes a standardized patient to promote interprofessional collaboration between nursing and forensic biology students, the county sheriff, and community emergency medical personnel including a sexual assault nurse examiner.Continue reading
Humanizing task trainers to inform patient-centered care
Low fidelity task trainers are a cost-effective tool to teach skills. However, practicing skills on task trainers focuses learner attention on the task to the exclusion of the other aspectsContinue reading
IV Push Evidence-Based Practice Checklist
There is a lack of standardized IV Push medication preparation and administration teaching strategies in nursing programs throughout the United States. This lack of standardization creates an alarming variation inContinue reading
Building Student Confidence in Clinical Communication with SBAR and Conversation Scripts
During clinical rotations, nursing students communicate with patients, visitors, faculty, and members of the interdisciplinary health care team. While effective communication leads to better outcomes and quality of care, ineffectiveContinue reading
Escape Game for Postpartum Hemorrhage for Nursing Education
As part of a national effort to improve early acknowledgment and intervention to postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), complicated by the fact that nursing students and graduate nurses are held accountable forContinue reading
Maintaining Quality and Safety During a Disaster
This strategy is based upon Sund’s (2013) “Start Triage Practice-Who Wants to be an EMT?” case study exercise. This can be implemented in a simulation lab in whatever method preferredContinue reading
Patient Teaching Related to the Quality and Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines
As pre-licensure students begin to develop in their role as a trusted professional, they will encounter questions from patients that they cannot answer using their textbooks. When they encounter newContinue reading
Triage Simulation to enhance communication and clinical reasoning skills
This simulation activity provides an opportunity for nursing students to apply QSEN competencies in recognizing and addressing physiological, psychosocial, developmental, cultural, and socioeconomic barriers this patient scenario includes. This simulationContinue reading