Simulated learning during Major Incident Day

Abstract

This article evaluates a simulation exercise known as the ‘Major Incident Day’, which includes third year undergraduate operating department practice (ODP) and nursing students, within the Faculty of Health and Social Care at Edge Hill University in Lancashire. Edge Hill University (EHU), was one of the original 13 pilot sites identified in the Nursing and Midwifery Council's (NMC's) Simulation and Practice Learning Project, which aimed to introduce simulation into the curriculum for undergraduate nursing and allied health professions students (NMC, 2007).This particular project was not conducted to explore the contribution of simulated hours towards clinical practice hours, but rather to evaluate student attitudes in relation to the interprofessional learning (IPL) relationships between two distinctive groups of future health professionals. A larger scale and more in-depth research project is in the process of being formally approved and should be ready for publication in late 2013/14.