| Tuesday, July 8, 2008: 3:15 PM-4:30 PM | |||
| High Fidelity Patient Simulation: Process and Outcomes to Improve Competency Education and Validation | |||
| Learning Objective #1: discuss processes and outcomes of a regional simulation center that has provided competency education/validation in approximatly 21,00 learner visits to nursing/allied health students and clinicians. | |||
| Learning Objective #2: describe development of a competency transcript to communicate to employers new graduates'level of competence based on performance of students in a simulation center. | |||
| The North Central Texas Health Care Consortium, made up of representatives of Midwestern State University, Vernon College and United Regional Health Care System, developed a Regional Simulation Center (RSC) in north central Texas in January 2004. This center, funded by a $1.27 Nursing Innovative Grant Program sponsored by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, is housed in a 3,410 square foot renovated hospital unit and equipped with 7 high fidelity patient simulators (4 adults and 3 infants). Four BSN-prepared lab mentors, supervised by a MSN-prepared director, provide competence education/validation to nursing and allied health students at both nursing schools and patient care staff at the regional hospital. Use of the BSN lab mentors allow faculty members in both schools and hospital education staff time for other activities, including teaching additional students. The proposed seminar will focus on three components of the implementation and evaluation of the Regional Simulation Center. First, the competency education/validation processes used in the RSC as part of the course of study of associate and baccalaureate degree nursing students will be described, including the development and evaluation of scenario-based simulation, roles of faculty and lab mentors, and the cost-effectiveness of the simulation. The quantitative and qualitative outcomes will be presented and the steps in developing and maintaining the collaboration among the university, the community college and the regional health care system will also be emphasized. Secondly, the use of the RSC in the annual competency validation of approximately 900 hospital clinical staff will be highlighted.. Finally, the development and pilot testing of a competency transcript to communicate new graduate competence based upon their student performance in the RSC will be discussed. | |||
| Symposium Organizer: | Susan Sportsman, RN, PhD | ||
| Symposium Presenters: | Pamela Bradshaw, MSN, PhD Michelle Watson, RN, MSN Marcy Beck Melody Chandler, RN, BSN Kathleen Roberts, RN, DNP Robin Lockhart, RN, MSN | ||
| Annual Competency Validation using High Fidelity Patient Simulation Susan Sportsman, RN, PhD, Pamela Bradshaw, MSN, PhD, Marcy Beck, Michelle Watson, RN, MSN | |||
| Developing Clinical Competency through Simulation Pamela Bradshaw, MSN, PhD, Marcy Beck, Susan Sportsman, RN, PhD | |||
| Simulation in Annual Competency Validation Susan Sportsman, RN, PhD, Melody Chandler, RN, BSN, Michelle Watson, RN, MSN | |||
| A Competency Transcript for Communication with Employers Susan Sportsman, RN, PhD, Kathleen Roberts, RN, DNP, Robin Lockhart, RN, MSN | |||