Clinical Simulations for Nursing Education: Instructor Volume

• Meets the needs of students with diverse learning styles.
• Facilitates the progression from theory to application in a controlled environment.
• Bases scenarios on real-life patient care situations with decision points prompting an assessment, a response, and an action.
• Addresses every level of health care--primary, acute, long-term, and palliative care.
• Represents the spectrum of clinical nursing practice domains, patient age levels, and cultural backgrounds.
• Incorporates assessment skills necessary to evaluate critical body systems as appropriate to the patient's condition.
• Aids in the mastery of the skills and procedures needed to...
• Meet multiple objectives.
• Clearly describe signs and symptoms.
• Determine environmental safety hazards.
• Communicate effectively with patients and team members.
• Document assessment findings accurately and succinctly.
• Identify appropriate nursing interventions.

Organizes scenarios from simple to complex in a consistent format that includes...

• Level
• Roles
• Learning outcomes
  • Cognitive
  • Communication
  • Psychomotor
  • Safety
  • Affective
  • Leadership and Management
• Overview of the problem
  • Definition
  • Pathophysiology
  • Risk factors
  • Assessment
  • Diagnostic tests
  • Treatment
  • Nursing management
  • Evaluation/outcome criteria
  • Review questions
  • Related evidence-based practice guidelines
  • Topics to review prior to the simulation
• Simulation
  • Prerequisites
  • Setting
  • Environment and simulator
  • Equipment
  • Medications/IV therapy
  • Client background
  • Admission Sheet (form)
  • Provider's Orders (form)
  • Nursing Report
• Student Simulation Prep Assignments
  • Identify items and their purpose in the care of a patient with condition]
  • Identify team members and specific roles in the care of a patient with condition]
  • Relevant data exercise
  • Initial focused assessment
  • Diagnostic tests
  • Treatment
  • Nursing problems/Diagnoses
• Simulator Settings
  • Facilitator cues/Time progression
  • Role
  • Assessment/Student actions correct
  • Patient event/Response; Patient assessment data
  • Assessment/Student actions incorrect
  • Patient response
  • Comments
  • Clinical pause
  • Additional scenes and clinical pauses as required
  • Debriefing/Guided reflection
• References
• Standard forms templates