Clinical Simulation in Nursing
Volume 6, Issue 2 , Pages e53-e59, March 2010

Incorporating High-fidelity Simulation Technology into Community Health Nursing Education

  • Shelley T. Yeager, MSN, RN

      Affiliations

    • St. Luke's Hospital, Bethlehem, PA 18015, USA
    • ,
  • Beth Gotwals, MSN, RN

      Affiliations

    • St. Luke's School of Nursing at Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA 18018, USA

published online 13 November 2009.

Abstract 

This article offers a look at an innovative educational process that uses the high-fidelity human patient simulator in a community health nursing course. This course includes a clinical practicum during which students conduct skilled nursing visits as part of a visiting nurse–home care agency experience. To better prepare for this experience, the assistant professor for the course and the simulation technology coordinator collaborated to develop a simulated home visit. Use of the human patient simulator gives students an opportunity to conduct an initial home visit in a nonthreatening environment.

Keywords: simulation, high-fidelity, home visit, community health, nursing student, props, fidelity, baccalaureate, medication education, congestive heart failure

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 Cite this article: Yeager, S. T., & Gotwals, B. (2010, March). Incorporating high-fidelity simulation technology into community health nursing education. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, VOL(6), e53-e59. doi:10.1016/j.ecns.2009.07.004.

PII: S1876-1399(09)00510-6

doi:10.1016/j.ecns.2009.07.004

Clinical Simulation in Nursing
Volume 6, Issue 2 , Pages e53-e59, March 2010

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