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Learning Objective 1: identify nursing students' perceptions towards the benefits of human patient simulation as an active, collaborative learning environment.
Learning Objective 2: determine the benefits of human patient simulation as an evidence based teaching pedagogy which builds students’ self-confidence through measurable learning outcomes.
Human patient simulation (HPS) is a new teaching pedagogy used in nursing education. Although numerous benefits of simulation pedagogy are reported in the literature, no published research was found concerning measurement of learning outcomes. The purpose of this study was to describe nursing students’ perceptions in using HPS and to examine its influence on the learning outcome of self-confidence. This quasi-experimental, pilot study used t-tests to analyze data from students’ self-confidence pretest and posttest instruments and descriptive statistics from simulation evaluation surveys. The participants’ self-confidence scores increased from the pretest to the posttest and were found to be statistically significant. The participants also reported their simulation experience as positive. Consequently, the participants enjoyed the use of HPS, and it appeared to be well suited as a teaching pedagogy for building students’ self-confidence.
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