{"id":1791,"date":"2015-05-05T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/nursing\/?p=61"},"modified":"2024-01-30T15:40:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:40:58","slug":"engaging-students-multiple-levels-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/health-sciences-nursing-veterinary-technology-educational-information\/engaging-students-multiple-levels-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaging Nursing Students from Multiple Levels in Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 1, 2015:<\/strong> An ambulance is bringing in four victims of a two-car motor vehicle accident into your Emergency Department. The patients include an elderly female, a middle-aged female, a young, pregnant female, and a 2-year-old child. As the nurse, how will you implement care? What are your priorities?\"baysim2015\"<\/p>\n

This collaborative scenario was designed by nursing instructors to be dramatized by associate degree nursing students from various clinical semesters. Concepts from Levels 1, 3, and 4 were chosen so students could\u00a0 illustrate their talents. Both high-fidelity simulators (Human Animated Lifeforms or “HAL’s”) and basic mannequins were employed to simulate communication with patients and health care providers, heart, lung, and bowel sounds, respiratory patterns, pupillary changes, pulses, injuries and wounds.<\/p>\n

Debriefing<\/h5>\n

A\u00a0vital component of simulation, debriefing allowed students to reflect on individual and\u00a0 team performance. It also helped to reinforce concepts and diffuse emotions after a stressful situation.<\/p>\n

Students’ Evaluations<\/h5>\n

Evaluations, anonymously completed by students, were overwhelmingly positive:<\/p>\n