Highlights
- •Creating ambulatory care simulation environment for primary care nurse practitioner student simulations can be challenging.
- •The students rated the debriefing experience as consistently effective at helping them to identify how to improve or sustain good performance.
- •Further research should focus on innovative, resource-effective strategies to use standardized patients within simulation for primary care nurse practitioner student teaching and evaluation.
Abstract
Background
Nurse practitioner (NP) faculty need to think strategically about how to best implement
simulation using standardized patients (SPs) for primary care NP courses. This pilot
study sought to identify barriers and strategies to facilitate the use of SPs in a
NP program.
Method
NP students participated in an ambulatory care simulation using a SP. Students completed
the Debriefing Assessment for Simulation in Healthcare (DASH)© student version, short form, after the simulation.
Results
Students rated the simulation debriefing experience as effective in helping them improve
or sustain good performance.
Conclusion
Although SPs portrayed a realistic ambulatory care environment, barriers are identified
along with suggestions to overcome these barriers.
Keywords
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