This study was completed to determine the influence of simulation on reducing nursing students’ anxiety levels when faced with sudden patient death. The study also explored how nursing students’ general anxiety levels ...

Background: The 2014 NCSBN study identified that the largest number of minority students were randomized to and withdrew from the 50% simulation group. These findings are significant as there is a paucity of research ...

As simulation emerges as the best practice in education; access to its offered trainings still remains a challenge. The James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital and Clinics serves over 94,000 unique Veteran and active duty ...

In 2009 the National League for Nursing (NLN) began a project to develop innovative teaching strategies to teach nursing students about care of older adults – the ACES project. The model that emerged included a ...

Many organizations evaluate individual components of a simulation program, such as, the scenarios, participants’ perceptions, the debriefer, and learning outcomes, but few programs evaluate simulation holistically ...

The INACSL Standards of Best Practice SM have identified the importance of ongoing education for facilitators of simulation, especially in the art of debriefing. This rapidly expanding area of simulation challenges educators ...

Simulation is an effective teaching method that improves learning, enhances clinical decision making processes, increases confidence in nursing practice and allows for mistakes without harm to patients. An identified need ...

Low levels of nursing student engagement have been linked to heavy academic work loads that limit extracurricular activity. In a quest to meaningfully engage nursing students we developed the Student Crew in Simulation ...

The purpose of this study was to assess the accuracy of on clinical decision making (CDM) among various roles in an acute-care simulation scenario in pre-licensure nursing students. This study utilized a mixed factorial ...

When the National Council of State Boards of Nursing released their simulation study in 2014, many nursing programs felt like they now had the support for the statement that properly planned and designed simulation-based ...