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Saturday, 16 November 2013
Learning Objective 1: The learner will be able to identify two reasons to implement a hybrid clinical course model in nursing education.
Learning Objective 2: The learner will be able to identify two purposes for implementing the Clinical Hybrid Evaluation Tool in a hybrid medical-surgical clinical course.
This project explores the extent to which traditional clinical experiences can be supplemented with simulation-based experiences and proposes an innovative evaluation tool which can be used to evaluate pre-licensure Baccalaureate of Science in Nursing students in a medical-surgical clinical course that includes simulation with deliberate practice in conjunction with traditional clinical experiences. To explore this issue, literature from January 2000-June 2012 was reviewed in: Medline, CINHAL, PubMed, OVID, and EBSCO. References from key studies and professional websites were also reviewed. A literature review revealed that simulation-based experiences which include deliberate practice opportunities, in conjunction with traditional clinical experiences, are superior to traditional clinical experiences alone and that the optimal amount of simulation-based experiences to include in clinical courses remains unknown. The Clinical Hybrid Evaluation Tool was developed to make pre-licensure nursing clinical courses more effective while creating a foundation for standardization of pre-licensure nursing clinical course performance expectations.