Partnership between University Clinical Skills/Simulation Center and Nursing Staff Development
Start Date
5-19-2012 2:30 PM
End Date
5-19-2012 2:45 PM
Description
Creating a bridge between the academic and clinical community can produce innumerable benefits for both the university and the hospital. The overall premise is that orientation of the new employee begins on the first day of nursing school. Incorporating evidence based practice and nursing department policy and procedures as bench marks anchors the nursing curriculum.
Nursing students learn and practice new skills in the simulation center with the identical supplies and equipment utilized by hospital personnel is an essential component for their eventual assimilation in hospital clinical units. Creating a partnership between the hospital nursing staff development department’s product review subcommittee and the University Clinical Skills andSimulationCenterhas brought to the forefront the mutual benefits of collaboration.
There is growing evidence in the nursing literature about the effectiveness of clinical simulation as a powerful teaching/learning strategy. This wealth of research attributes simulation’s effectiveness to its design that creates an environment where “students become active learners, abandoning memorization for accessing knowledge, and thinking and applying learning in context rather than providing answers to fact-based tests” (Jeffries, 2007). Simulation suites provide a “safe, supportive environment that allows students to learn a variety of complex skills in a stress-free environment” (Ghiglieri, Ruiz, & Vasudevan, 2007). Learners must have a high degree of believably that the clinical setting is authentic. The clinical simulation suite should be a mirror image of a similar clinical room in the hospital, with all the equipment and products identical to one another. A learner in this simulated patient care scenario can easily transfer lessons learned to real life patient in hospital settings. The benefits of simulation as a teaching strategy has direct improvement on patient safety, increased knowledge, increased compliance with nursing policy and procedures, increased staff and patient satisfaction and increased student /future employee clinical confidence.
Partnership between University Clinical Skills/Simulation Center and Nursing Staff Development
Creating a bridge between the academic and clinical community can produce innumerable benefits for both the university and the hospital. The overall premise is that orientation of the new employee begins on the first day of nursing school. Incorporating evidence based practice and nursing department policy and procedures as bench marks anchors the nursing curriculum.
Nursing students learn and practice new skills in the simulation center with the identical supplies and equipment utilized by hospital personnel is an essential component for their eventual assimilation in hospital clinical units. Creating a partnership between the hospital nursing staff development department’s product review subcommittee and the University Clinical Skills andSimulationCenterhas brought to the forefront the mutual benefits of collaboration.
There is growing evidence in the nursing literature about the effectiveness of clinical simulation as a powerful teaching/learning strategy. This wealth of research attributes simulation’s effectiveness to its design that creates an environment where “students become active learners, abandoning memorization for accessing knowledge, and thinking and applying learning in context rather than providing answers to fact-based tests” (Jeffries, 2007). Simulation suites provide a “safe, supportive environment that allows students to learn a variety of complex skills in a stress-free environment” (Ghiglieri, Ruiz, & Vasudevan, 2007). Learners must have a high degree of believably that the clinical setting is authentic. The clinical simulation suite should be a mirror image of a similar clinical room in the hospital, with all the equipment and products identical to one another. A learner in this simulated patient care scenario can easily transfer lessons learned to real life patient in hospital settings. The benefits of simulation as a teaching strategy has direct improvement on patient safety, increased knowledge, increased compliance with nursing policy and procedures, increased staff and patient satisfaction and increased student /future employee clinical confidence.
