The Effects of a Deliberate Practice Debriefing During a Response to Rescue Patient Simulation With Undergraduate Nursing Students.

The purpose of this multisite, randomized, pretest/posttest quasi-experimental study was to compare student nurse competency, learning retention, and perceived student support after exposure to a deliberate practice debriefing versus standardized debriefing. Fifty undergraduate students participated in the complex response to rescue simulation. The intervention group had significantly higher total mean and three subscale scores on the competency tool than the comparison group, although differences in learning retention and student support were not significant.

The Effect of Evaluator Training on Inter- and Intrarater Reliability in High-Stakes Assessment in Simulation.

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a training intervention in achieving inter- and intrarater reliability among faculty raters conducting high-stakes assessment of clinical performance in simulation.

Background: High-stakes assessment of simulation performance is being adopted in nursing education. However, limited research exists to guide best practices in training raters, which is essential to ensure fair and defensible assessment.

Replicable Interprofessional Competency Outcomes from High-Volume, Inter-Institutional, Interprofessional Simulation.

There are significant limitations among the few prior studies that have examined the development and implementation of interprofessional education (IPE) experiences to accommodate a high volume of students from several disciplines and from different institutions. The present study addressed these gaps by seeking to determine the extent to which a single, large, inter-institutional, and IPE simulation event improves student perceptions of the importance and relevance of IPE and simulation as a learning modality, whether there is a difference in students' perceptions among disciplines, and whether the results are reproducible. A total of 290 medical, nursing, pharmacy, and physical therapy students participated in one of two large, inter-institutional, IPE simulation events.

Writing a Simulation Scenario: A Step-By-Step Guide.

Simulation is becoming a widely used method of helping nurses learn and maintain competency in the clinical area for both staff educators in clinical settings and nursing faculty in academic settings. Designing an effective simulation experience requires thoughtful planning, knowledge of educational principles, and knowledge of best practices in both simulation and clinical practice. An evidence-based strategy for writing a simulation scenario for nurses and other health care providers in any setting is described.

The integrated model for interprofessional education: a design for preparing health professions' students to work in interprofessional teams.

An important element in the process of helping students learn to work interprofessionally is figuring out how to design high-impact learning experiences that engage students in meaningful learning that is collaborative and experiential and can transform students understanding of their own and others' roles in the health care process. In this article, a model for interprofessional education, the Integrated Model for Interprofessional Education (IMIPE), is shared for introducing students in the health professions to the roles and responsibilities of some of the other healthcare professionals with whom they will work in practice. The IMIPE is a process model developed by an interprofessional faculty team used as the focal point of a pilot educational event for students from nursing, occupational therapy, physician assistant studies, and social work.

Constructing maternal-child learning experiences using clinical simulations.

Clinical simulations are gaining more attention in the field of maternal-child health and allow nursing programs and service organizations to assess competency of students and staff in key patient safety situations. Nursing and midwifery programs, orientations, and yearly reaccreditation modules commonly include simulation on postpartum hemorrhage, placenta abruption, shoulder distocia, and other high-risk, low-incidence emergency events. This article describes the use of simulations by educators and managers as teaching or professional development strategies.

Outcomes of clinical simulation for novice nursing students: communication, confidence, clinical judgment.

The use of clinical simulation in nursing education provides many opportunities for students to learn and apply theoretical principles of nursing care in a safe environment. The purpose of this study was to evaluate simulated clinical experiences as a teaching/learning method to increase the self-efficacy of nursing students during their initial clinical course in a prelicensure program. An integrated, quasi-experimental, repeated measures design was used.

Death of a lifestyle: the effects of social support and healthcare support on the quality of life of persons with fibromyalgia and/or chronic fatigue syndrome.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate how social support and healthcare support affect the quality of life of persons with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome.

Method: A constant comparison method was used for the qualitative portion of the research and descriptive correlational methods were used for the quantitative portion.

Conclusion: This mixed design research study suggested that social support, unlike healthcare support, is related to Quality of Life (QOL).