Promoting Caring by Increasing Realism in the Simulated Environment

Gail Ward,Laurie Ware,Lisa Robinson

doi:10.15344/2394-4978/2017/257

Abstract

High-fidelity human patient simulators provide students learning opportunities for performing skills, attaining knowledge, critical thinking, and building self-confidence. Absent from this list is the essential component of learning caring in nursing. Simulation-based learning can present a challenge to students learning caring behaviors. The purpose of this paper is to address strategies helpful in creating realistic high-fidelity simulation-based learning experiences promoting learning caring during simulation. Simulation specialists who create a realistic clinical scenario and add the human component to the simulated experience were found to make the simulated environment more realistic and consequently more conducive to learning caring behaviors.

Highlights

Simulation-based learning experiences using high-fidelity human patient simulators (HFHPSs) have increased rapidly as a strategy for teaching clinical concepts in lieu of traditional clinical environments [1,2]
Evidence suggests patient simulation is both a productive setting for student learning and accepted by faculty as an effective teaching strategy [3,4].few research studies focus on the teaching and learning of caring during high-fidelity simulation-based learning experiences (HFSLEs)
With the increasing number of clinical hours spent in high-fidelity simulation-based education, it is vital that simulation educators intentionally create caring objectives for each simulated activity so this essential component of nursing is not overlooked [2]

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Introduction

Simulation-based learning experiences using high-fidelity human patient simulators (HFHPSs) have increased rapidly as a strategy for teaching clinical concepts in lieu of traditional clinical environments [1,2]. Evidence suggests patient simulation is both a productive setting for student learning and accepted by faculty as an effective teaching strategy [3,4].few research studies focus on the teaching and learning of caring during high-fidelity simulation-based learning experiences (HFSLEs). Teaching and learning human caring and empathy in simulated settings, as well as in traditional environments, are integral parts of the affective domain in nursing education.

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