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Various factors, including the fact that in fast-paced, acute care settings, students have little time to reflect on a client's situation and provide appropriate and thoughtful nursing interventions, led our faculty to develop real-life, real-time scenarios for a simulated clinical setting. Senior students studying Complex Illness and Disease Management are assigned to 15 weeks of eight-hour clinicals in an acute care setting. Now, three sessions with a high-fidelity simulation (HFS) manikin are spaced throughout the semester. The eight-hour authentic clinical scenario mimics the entire hospitalization experience, from admission to discharge of a client. The scenario is designed to enhance students' critical thinking skills and promote confidence and comfort in the clinical arena. While skills lab use of HFS focuses primarily on learning skills and tasks, the simulation clinical focuses on solving problems, teamwork, understanding complex disease processes, decision making, and critical thinking. A focus on tasks and skills is one component of the scenario, but only in relation to caring for the client.

Details nurse educators experience creating high fidelity simulation experiences for a nursing students. Headings include: Project development, simulation clinical experience, and outcomes.

Using mannequins that respond like real patients, this Virtual Education and Simulation Training Center is crucial in shaping field-leading medical providers. Go inside Christiana Care's training center and see how you can prepare yourself for a rewarding medical career. Simulation studio is a training area to look and feel like a hospital

Found the simulation interesting as the Christiana Care's training center is set up to look like a hospital from ED to OR to ICUs and a delivery room.

interactive online simulations

Are there concepts in Nursing education that need interactive simulations, such as the ones on this site? Take a look at tell us what you think.

"The use of simulation in graduate and undergraduate medical education and in team training has been demonstrated to improve trainee satisfaction. Multiple studies also have shown improvements in measures of provider self-efficacy and confidence."

The Simulation Innovation Resource Center

Good information about use of simulation in nursing education.

About John Miller, a Nursing Professor at Tacoma Community College, use of nursing simulation in Second Life.

Highlights the tendency to recreate the victorian, traditional classroom in Second Life and offers some quick examples of alternative experience

"Second life does provide social presence through the avatars we use, lots of opportunities for role play (let's face it, it is at a minimum a role play game), and yes it is immersive, allowing you to experience human from inside the cell walls or visit a detailed simulation of the Cistine Chapel. But the real power of Second Life as a virtual venue for your teaching and learning is the ability to translate real content into something really exciting and powerful. That of course is where the difficulty lies isn't it?"

Labyrinth is an experimental educational pathway authoring and delivery system being developed at the University of Edinburgh along with a number of other partners. Users are presented with set or randomly selected choices as they move through a Labyrinth, each of which has a consequence for the user. Examples include virtual patients, quizzes, games and tutorials.

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Health-care facilities are discovering that practicing in the virtual world can have major benefits in real life....

"Formerly hosted by the UNC TLT Collaborative, this year the TLT Conference is being hosted by UNC-Pembroke, with support by the UNC System, and will be held April 13-15, 2010 in Second Life. The presentations and demonstrations will be held on the five NC Education WeBIEE islands. NC Education is a Second Life group funded by the community colleges and open to all of North Carolina education. Registration for the 2010 UNC TLT Conference is free! You can attend from your home, office, library . . . anywhere you have a broadband internet connection -- for free!!"

An example of a educational technology conference held in Second Life. Many of our community will attend - Hope to see you there!