Clinical Simulations in Nursing Education : Advanced Concepts, Trends, and Opportunities

While confronting many challenges related to changes in health care, higher education, and clinical practice, nurse educators are exploring new opportunities for innovative teaching/learning methods, new clinical models, and educational practices to ... Read more

While confronting many challenges related to changes in health care, higher education, and clinical practice, nurse educators are exploring new opportunities for innovative teaching/learning methods, new clinical models, and educational practices to provide high-quality education to promote optimal, quality patient care. Clinical simulations can provide health care educators one approach to create student-centered, experiential environments that engage and prepare the learner for real-world practice.Clinical Simulations in Nursing Education: Advanced Concepts, Trends, and Opportunities provides chapters authored by expert simulation researchers, educators, and users to shed light on important advancements and emerging topics in clinical simulation including:  • Enhanced interprofessional education and practice through simulation  • Meaningful debriefing  • Expansion of clinical simulation globally  • Development of a good business plan and consideration of the economic model of a simulation center  • Research and evaluation of clinical simulation  • High-stakes simulation  • Certification of educators and accreditation of simulation centers Less