| Sunday, November 13, 2005: 8:15 AM-9:30 AM | |||
| Infusing Simulation Across an Undergraduate BSN Curriculum: Tales From the Field | |||
| Learning Objective #1: Discuss issues to consider when adopting simulation as a core teaching strategy in a nursing program | |||
| Learning Objective #2: Envision potential advantages of using clinical simulation for teaching nursing students | |||
| Schools of nursing are under increasing pressure to produce clinically competent graduates: those who are proficient in providing care for a core set of clinical problems and able to prioritization care activities. In our program, we are using clinical simulations (clinical scenarios enacted within a virtual care environment using manikins that simulate human patients) as a key teaching strategy to achieve this goal. The use of these clinical simulations guarantees that each student will have had experience with a pre-defined core set of major disease processes and their associated nursing care prior to graduation regardless of the student’s assigned clinical rotations. Further, it enhances the validity and reliability of student performance assessment. Course content and clinical scenario experiences in the simulation lab are matched, giving novice students experience in such basic skills as assessing normal and abnormal breath, bowel, and heart sounds. Multiple layering of nursing skills and physiological concepts, for example, caring for the hysterical family member in addition to the acute heart attack patient, simulate what students may experience in the practice arena. Our symposium will highlight key elements needed for the incorporation of simulation learning into a curriculum, how clinical simulation is being used in individual courses (a BSN and an RN-BSN assessment course, a foundations course, and a medical-surgical nursing course), and how it aided the implementation of an innovative all levels clinical make-up experience. We will share evaluation data provided by students and faculty that suggests that clinical simulations provide a rich and safe learning environment that encourages in-depth questions and analysis from students, increases the quality and nature of the pedagogical interactions between faculty and students, and improves subsequent clinical performance in the clinical laboratory when caring for patients. | |||
| Organizer: | Suzan Kardong-Edgren, PhD, RNC | ||
| Presenters: | Carolyn L. Cason, RN, PhD Mindi Anderson, RN, CPNP, MSN Nola Schrum, RN, FNP-C Jackie Michaels, RN, MS, WHNP Susan Walker, RN, MS, FNP-C Suzan Kardong-Edgren, PhD, RNC Jackie Michael, MSN, RNC, WHCNP | ||
| Shaping the Ball and Getting it Rolling Carolyn L. Cason, RN, PhD | |||
| From Lecture to Life...Simulation in a Skills Lab Nola Schrum, RN, FNP-C | |||
| He's Alive! Using Simulation in a BSN Assessment Course Mindi Anderson, RN, CPNP, MSN | |||
| Using Simulation in an RN-BSN Assessment Course Jackie Michaels, RN, MS, WHNP | |||
| From the Pasture to the Stable: Moving Faculty into the Simulation Fold Susan Walker, RN, MS, FNP-C | |||
| An All-Comers Clinical Make-up Experience Using Simulation Suzan Kardong-Edgren, PhD, RNC | |||