A guide for facilitating an escape room for undergraduate nursing students

Abstract

BackgroundNurse educators continue to look for innovative teaching modalities to meet the needs of the Generation Z learner. Escape rooms, an interactive game where participants use clues to complete a mission and escape a room, have begun to be utilized in the educational setting. MethodA pediatric themed escape room was developed to orient the learner to pediatric nursing and to prepare the learner for their clinical rotation. The steps for an educator to facilitate an effective escape room are to determine the goal, write objectives, plan the scenario, gather the equipment, prepare the escape room, facilitate the scenario, and evaluate the scenario ResultsA simulation escape room was an effective modality to orient the learner to a specialty clinical environment such as a pediatric setting. This successful innovation was well received by students with positive examples of application. ConclusionA pediatric themed escape room is an innovative teaching modality to integrate into your curriculum to meet the needs of the Generation Z learner.