The above article discusses how an acute care setting is often a time of anxiety for a new fieldwork OT student. I know there were many times that I was shocked by just how medically acute the conditions that I was walking into were on a day to day basis. The article explains how there is a void of simulation teaching for the acute care practice setting in OT education, and so the researchers examined the effectiveness of simulated learning versus classroom/textbook teaching. The researchers concluded that not only did the student's actual performance improve, but they were also more readily confident when entering an acute care fieldwork setting!
The above article discusses how an acute care setting is often a time of anxiety for a new fieldwork OT student. I know there were many times that I was shocked by just how medically acute the conditions that I was walking into were on a day to day basis. The article explains how there is a void of simulation teaching for the acute care practice setting in OT education, and so the researchers examined the effectiveness of simulated learning versus classroom/textbook teaching. The researchers concluded that not only did the student's actual performance improve, but they were also more readily confident when entering an acute care fieldwork setting!