Simulation Scenarios for Nurse Educators: Making it Real

About the Book

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Once you begin to read the book, you will not be able to put it down. [An] excellent guide for nursing faculty just getting started with simulations or faculty who are already using this pedagogy."

Pamela R. Jeffries, DNS, RN, FAAN, ANEF
Associate Dean, Indiana University School of Nursing

Computerized patient simulation is an exciting and innovative pedagogical method that allows nurse educators to prepare student nurses for the challenges of clinical practice. This book serves as a step-by-step guide to designing and developing simulated scenarios, and integrating them into nursing curriculums. The authors provide concrete information about the use of simulation in a variety of programs, courses, and schools with flexible simulator uses, including live actors and static mannequins.

This book also provides options for building a learning resource center, and offers guidance on faculty development. Additionally, the contributors present 17 exemplars of actual scenarios in multiple clinical areas, as well as testimonies of practicing faculty.

Key Features:

• Numerous checklists, including health communication checklists, evaluation criteria checklists to assess student performance, and debriefing guidelines
• Forms to enhance the realness of the scenario, such as patient data forms, patient medication forms, and assessment tools
• Suggested readings, lists of skills necessary for scenario enactment, and websites for further research This book will encourage the development of critical thinking, reasoning, and judgment, and help to create a new generation of caring, competent, and confident practitioners.

Table of Contents:
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I
1 INTRODUCTION - SIMULATION FOCUSED PEDAGOGY FOR NURSING EDUCATION
2 INTEGRATING SIMULATION-FOCUSED PEDAGOGY INTO CURRICULUM
3 BUILDING A LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER
4 FACULTY LEARNING COMMUNITIES: AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO FACULTY DEVELOPMENT
5 ENHANCING COMMUNICATION SKILLS THROUGH SIMULATIONS
PART II INNOVATIVE SIMULATION SCENARIOS IN DIVERSE SETTINGS
6 TUNE INTO SIMULATION THROUGH PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
7 CARE OF AN OLDER ADULT WITH CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
8 THE OLDER ADULT IN AN ICU WITH ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE
9 CARE OF THE POST-SURGICAL APPENDECTOMY PATIENT IN PAIN
10 OBSTETRIC EMERGENCY - POST-PARTUM HEMORRHAGE
11 TRAUMA RESUSCITATION
12 POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER/TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY AND OTHER CONDITIONS IN AN IRAQI VETERAN OF WAR
13 WOUND MANAGEMENT IN HOME HEALTH CARE
14 Diabetic Home Care Patient with Elevated Blood Sugars
15 ASSESSMENT & DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF THE PATIENT PRESENTING WITH "CHEST PAIN"
16 CARE OF THE INFANT WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE STATUS POST CARDIAC SURGICAL REPAIR
17 ASSESSING A PATIENT WITH A MOOD DISORDER
18 COMMUNICATION WITH AN ELDERLY CLIENT
19 MEDICAL SURGICAL SKILL BASED SCENARIOS
20 UNDERGRADUATE SENIOR CAPSTONE SCENARIOS: PEARLS, PITFALLS AND POLITICS
21 IMPROVING PATIENT SAFETY THROUGH STUDENT NURSE-RESIDENT TEAM TRAINING: THE CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION PILOT PROJECT
22 STUDENT GENERATED SCENARIOS FOR SENIOR SIMULATION DAY
23 BACTERIAL MENINGITIS IN A PEDIATRIC PATIENT
24 PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY
PART III
25 CUTTING EDGE VISIONS OF THE FUTURE OF SIMULATIONS
26 FRAMEWORK FOR SIMULATION LEARNING IN NURSING EDUCATION
Index


About the Author :
Suzanne Campbell is Associate Professor and Director of the University of British Columbia School of Nursing in Vancouver, BC. Karen M. Daley, PhD, RN, is the dean of the College of Health Professions at Davenport University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She now oversees the Allied Health, Health Information Management, Occupational Therapy, and Nursing programs.