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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Teaching the Teachers- A Two-Day Simulation Focused TeamSTEPPS Master Training Program for an Interprofessional Group of Hospital Leaders. Healthcare facilities all over are embracing AHRQ’s TeamSTEPPS program. ...

A large hospital system in Colorado where 3500 women deliver each year provided 45 simulation sessions for 195 registered nurses, 34 obstetricians and anesthesiologists, and 24 surgical techs. Simulations were provided in ...

There is a gap of knowledge on what is best practice for conducting large-scale simulation for interdisciplinary education. Currently, bringing multiple disciplines together to learn how to work in a collaborative manner ...