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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Patient simulation"”.
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Critical thinking skills in nursing students: Using human patient simulation
… teaching learning methods is the use of human patient simulation. A pretest/posttest experimental design was used to investigate critical thinking knowledge and skills after using human patient simulation in second semester nursing students. Nursing students from a northern California …
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Faculty Attitudes Toward the Utilization of High-fidelity Human Patient Simulation in Nursing Education
<p>Patient safety is an immediate concern of today's ever changing health care system. Nurses play a major role in patient safety and must be taught skills to ensure they are well-prepared for the many complexities they will face. One way nursing schools can enhance student learning by providing …
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Simulation in medical education : a case study evaluating the efficacy of high-fidelity patient simulation
High-fidelity patient simulation (HFPS) recreates clinical scenarios by combining mock patients and realistic environments to prepare learners with practical experience to meet the demands of modern clinical practice while ensuring patient safety. This research investigated the efficacy of HFPS in …
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The Effect of Human Patient Simulation on Medical-Surgical Nurses’ Self-Efficacy in Cardiac Emergency Management
… to arrive at an IHCA, must begin immediate patient resuscitation. It is imperative for these first responders to remain confident in their own abilities. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore the effect of education intervention (simulation and traditional) on perceived …
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A Pilot Test of Delegation and Prioritization Skills in New Graduate Nurses Using a Multiple Patient Simulation
This pilot study examined the use of a multiple patient simulation to determine if delegation and prioritization skills change in new graduate nurses who receive simulation as an intervention. This is a quasi-experimental pre-post test study consisting of a comparison group and a treatment group. …
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The effects of human patient simulation on critical thinking, self-efficacy, and quality and safety education for nurses
<p>Currently, the increase in critical patient care situations has challenged the education system to prepare nursing students with critical thinking skills vital for providing quality patient care as well as safety in practice. The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of human patient …
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Assessing Clinical Judgment Utilizing Embedded Patients In A Baccalaureate Nursing Program’s Simulation Laboratory
… students during a 15 to 20-minute embedded (live patient) simulation scenario using role play. Graduate nurses are expected to apply critical reasoning and be clinically competent when caring for patients when they enter the nursing profession. The use of simulation scenarios is an approved and …
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An assessment of the management of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in a rural district health ward of Northern Kwazulu
… practitioners, 6 traditional healers and 7 STD patients. A patient simulation exercise involving 6 nurses and 6 general practitioners was also conducted. Using routine data collection forms, the spectrum of STD syndromes and the contact tracing rate were assessed. The private sector treated …
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Playing with dolls : use of simulation technology in the Thompson Rivers University respiratory therapy program
… case study examines the use of medical simulation technology in the three-year Thompson Rivers University respiratory therapy training program. Qualitative analysis of data gathered from 78 participants through interviews, observations, and discussion groups reveal a wide variety of low- …
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The Creation and Implementation of a Transgender Cultural Competence Nursing Education Toolkit
… recommendations, consent form, six standardized patient simulation scenarios, a post-test and evaluation form. Testing of the toolkit content was completed on the 20<sup>th</sup> of September 2014 on a group of student volunteers. The results of the testing suggest that the content provided in …
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Does learning with high-fidelity human patient dimulation during nursing school impact career retention in the nursing profession during the first years of licensure?
High Fidelity Human Patient Simulation (HFHPS) is becoming an increasingly common component of undergraduate nursing education. Research has not captured the long term impact of this learning modality on retention in the profession of nursing. The purpose of this exploratory descriptive study was …
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Development and Implementation of An Anthropomorphic Pediatric Spine Phantom For The Assessment of Craniospinal Irradiation Procedures In Proton Therapy
… is advantageous for craniospinal pediatric patients, as it reduces the radiation side effects that can occur. The purpose of this study is to design an anthropomorphic pediatric spine phantom for use in the evaluation of proton therapy facilities for clinical trial participation by the …
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Acquisition and Retention of CPR Knowledge and Skills for Junior Level Baccalaureate Nursing Students
… a few weeks after training. The use of human patient simulation (HPS) scenarios has been beneficial in teaching a variety of nursing skills in a risk-free environment. This type of training has been recommended by nursing educators but there is no evidence of increased acquisition and …
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Effect of Implementation of Simulation on Critical Thinking Skills in Undergraduate Baccalaureate Nursing Students
<p>Human patient simulation (HPS) is a time and cost intensive teaching modality that is used widely in nursing education, and has been implemented with little evidence to support its efficacy (Jeffries & Rizzolo, 2006). Researchers note the lack of reliable tools to measure learning using this …
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Combining virtual patient and medical imaging for paediatric diseases training and education
… current training practices primarily rely on simulation-based training using high-fidelity mannequins. While this provides safe and controlled training environments, the mannequins are limited in their ability to simulate realistic patients and lack diagnostic components, such as medical …
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Implementation of An Anthropomorphic Phantom For The Evaluation of Proton Therapy Treatment Procedures
… can be designed to audit treatment procedures (patient simulation, treatment planning and treatment delivery) at proton facilities to confirm agreement between the measured dose and calculated dose within 5%/3mm with a reproducibility of 3%. A pelvis phantom originally designed for use with …
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Modification and Implementation of The Rpc Heterogeneous Thorax Phantom For Verification of Proton Therapy Treatment Procedures
… tumor proton beam therapy procedures involving patient simulation, treatment planning, and treatment delivery, and could confirm agreement between the measured dose and calculated dose within 5%/3mm with a reproducibility of 5%. The Hounsfield Units (HU) for lung equivalent materials (balsa wood …
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The Effects of Simulation on Junior Level Baccalaureate Nursing Students' Self-Efficacy and Intrinsic Motivation
… of the alternative teaching methods of human patient simulation (HPS) and virtual clinical excursion (VCE) on self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation of 126 culturally diverse junior level nursing students. The purpose of this study was to determine if these simulation activities were …
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Development of a patient-specific finite element model of the transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) procedure
… for replacing the defective aortic valve of a patient as an alternative to open heart Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement (SAVR). In the TAVI procedure a prosthetic valve, which is assembled on to a stent, is crimped and delivered to the patient's aortic root site through several available …
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