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College of Health Professions: Undergraduate Nursing
Overview
Undergraduate nursing students actively provide patient care during simulated scenarios using our high fidelity simulators. Scenarios are used for teaching as well as evaluation of core competencies. These activities support the curricular goal of progressive development of critical thinking and decision-making skills by providing increasingly complex environments as students advance through their undergraduate education. Students are asked to use their knowledge from lectures, readings and laboratory experiences to care for their simulated patients. They demonstrate understanding by accurately performing assessments and appropriate interventions.
Cases are geared for students to practice any of the following at their appropriate level:
- Assessment
- Safe practice
- Psychomotor skills
- Critical thinking
- Medication administration
- Team work
- Professional communication
- Documentation
Junior Nursing Students:
Junior students have multiple exposures to the ICS, many at a beginner level aimed to create educational opportunities for students to gain experience and confidence in the clinical setting. Students report this to be a valuable method in learning to apply new knowledge, skills and attitudes.
Competencies are tested in this rich environment, ensuring context-based skill delivery, which has been a very successful addition to our curriculum.
The curriculum includes:
- Nursing introduction to ICS, simulation and vital sign assessment
- Competency scenarios
- Altered airway management
- Heart and lung sound assessment
- Cardiopulmonary scenarios
- Postoperative complications
- Simulated home care visit
- Peri-operative management
- Introduction to labor and delivery, newborn, and postpartum care
- Pediatric clinical orientation
- Management of neonatal emergencies
- High risk intrapartum scenarios
- Obstetrical emergencies
Senior Nursing Students:
Senior students participate in increasingly complex scenarios, including multi-patient scenarios requiring the use of leadership skill and an interdisciplinary mock code experience.
- Post surgical patient management
- Musculoskeletal emergencies
- Post anesthesia patient management
- Spinal cord injury
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Closed head injury
- Shock
- Collaborative mock code
- Leadership scenarios