scholarly journals Utilizing Human Patient Simulators (HPS) To Meet Learning Objectives Across Concurrent Core Nursing Courses: A Pilot Study

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charman L. Miller ◽  
Camille Leadingham ◽  
Ronald Vance
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Associate Degree ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Patient Simulation ◽  
Human Patient ◽  
Human Patient Simulators ◽  
Patient Simulators ◽  
Active Learning Strategies ◽  
Nursing Courses

Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) faculty are challenged by the monumental responsibility of preparing students to function as safe, professional nurses in a two year course of study.   Advances in computer technology and emphasis on integrating technology and active learning strategies into existing course structures have prompted many nurse educators to explore the use of Human Patient Simulation (HPS) utilizing high-fidelity human patient simulators.  This pilot study was designed to assist ADN faculty to determine students’ perceptions regarding the use of HPS scenarios as a teaching strategy to meet course objectives across multiple core ADN nursing courses in a single quarter.

scholarly journals Promoting experiential learning through the use of high-fidelity human patient simulators in midwifery: A qualitative study

Curationis ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hafaza B. Amod ◽  
Petra Brysiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Complex Case ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
High Fidelity ◽  
Human Patient ◽  
Human Patient Simulators ◽  
Patient Simulators

Background: The need to use innovative teaching and learning strategies in the nursing pedagogy is important in the 21st century. The challenges of clinical sites and opportunities for nursing students to gain clinical experience are a growing concern for many nurse educators. High-fidelity human patient simulators (HFHPS) are computerised mannequins that replicate a real-life patient, and when integrated into classroom teaching they allow students to become fully immersed into an almost real-life scenario.Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe how HFHPS can promote experiential learning following the management of postpartum haemorrhage as a midwifery clinical emergency.Method: A descriptive qualitative research approach was carried out in this study. The research setting was a local university in KwaZulu-Natal. The total population included all (N = 43) fourth-year baccalaureate of nursing undergraduate student midwives who participated as observers and/or role-players of a scenario role-play. An all-inclusive sampling was performed. There were 43 student midwives involved in the simulation teaching session with 6 of these students actively participating in each role-play at a time, while the remaining 37 observed. This occurred in two separate sessions and all the student midwives were involved in a debriefing session. These student midwives were then followed up and asked to participate in a focus group. The data in this article came from two separate focus groups which comprised 20 student midwives in total. Data were analysed using content analysis.Results: Four categories emerged from the data, namely HFHPS offers a unique opportunity for student midwives to manage complex real-life emergencies; promotes reflection by allowing student midwives to reflect or review their roles, decisions and skills; allows student midwives to learn from their own experiences and encourages student midwives to try out what they learnt in a real-life situation.Conclusion: High-fidelity human patient simulators can be used in a complex case scenario to promote experiential learning of a clinical emergency.

Human Patient Simulators in Nursing Education: An Overview

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy M. Nehring ◽  
Wayne E. Ellis ◽  
Felissa R. Lashley
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Education ◽  
Human Patient ◽  
Human Patient Simulators ◽  
Patient Simulators

Study of physiological responses to acute carbon monoxide exposure with a human patient simulator

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 242-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Whitney A. Cesari ◽  
Dominique M. Caruso ◽  
Enela L. Zyka ◽  
Stuart T. Schroff ◽  
Charles H. Evans ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Monoxide ◽  
Extreme Environment ◽  
Physiological Adaptation ◽  
Human Patient ◽  
Patient Simulator ◽  
Integrative Physiology ◽  
Critical Thought ◽  
Human Patient Simulators ◽  
Patient Simulators ◽  
Human Patient Simulator

Human patient simulators are widely used to train health professionals and students in a clinical setting, but they also can be used to enhance physiology education in a laboratory setting. Our course incorporates the human patient simulator for experiential learning in which undergraduate university juniors and seniors are instructed to design, conduct, and present (orally and in written form) their project testing physiological adaptation to an extreme environment. This article is a student report on the physiological response to acute carbon monoxide exposure in a simulated healthy adult male and a coal miner and represents how 1) human patient simulators can be used in a nonclinical way for experiential hypothesis testing; 2) students can transition from traditional textbook learning to practical application of their knowledge; and 3) student-initiated group investigation drives critical thought. While the course instructors remain available for consultation throughout the project, the relatively unstructured framework of the assignment drives the students to create an experiment independently, troubleshoot problems, and interpret the results. The only stipulation of the project is that the students must generate an experiment that is physiologically realistic and that requires them to search out and incorporate appropriate data from primary scientific literature. In this context, the human patient simulator is a viable educational tool for teaching integrative physiology in a laboratory environment by bridging textual information with experiential investigation.

Human Patient Simulators and Interactive Case Studies

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
VALERIE MICHELE HOWARD ◽  
CARL ROSS ◽  
ANN M. MITCHELL ◽  
GLENN M. NELSON
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Human Patient ◽  
Human Patient Simulators ◽  
Patient Simulators
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