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Clinical Virtual Simulation in Nursing Education

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Clinical Virtual Simulation in Nursing Education

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Simulation allows educators to resemble clinical situations. The challenge of nursing educators today is to find and provide safe opportunities for students to practice and strengthen their skills. Clinical  virtual simulation has become an fundamental element in nursing education today. CVS acts as a facilitator for nursing education today which helps to support the development of clinical reasoning skills.

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* It is a safe and controlled environment that can be customized according to skill level
* Helps to provide students with real life patient scenarios
* Allows for active participation with each student
* Students are able to learn from their mistakes without causing any harm to patients
* Helps to accommodate different types of learning styles

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* Can be expensive to set up, maintain and properly train staff
* It is impossible to truly recreate real life patient scenarios
* Students may react differently in a simulation lab versus a real life scenarios for example in a real life emergency student may freeze

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Simulation applications for mobile devices

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Simulation applications for mobile devices

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Nursing Dictionary:
~ A medical dictionary app for nurses that is easy to use and allows for quick access
~ Includes abbreviations, acronyms, medical terms and medications also includes pictures to help with definitions
~ Invaluable reference guide for nurses to use on the go to keep them informed

Full Code Emergency Medicine:
~ A nursing app that presents with realistic medical simulation of critical patients in the ER
~ Helps to improve patient care by improving assessment and clinical decision making skills

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Nursing simulation has been used to provide stimulated distance education practice labs which has allowed access to a larger number of students across different geographic locations. This allows distant learning students increased access and flexibilty.

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An on line virtual bulletin board where people can collaborate and share links, pictures, video clips and audio files that is located in a secure location. Padlet offers a free version. It is also possible to upgrade to a subscription which offers extra features

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* User friendly and easy to create
* Can be accessed from tablet or phone by scanning code with mobile app
* Can keep private or share contact
* Great for collaborating with groups allows for real time feedback
* Helps to organize and share research information

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* Can be time consuming
* Not completely compatible to mobile devices can be used but does note have all the capabilities to navigate the board as the desktop version
* Possibility students can post content with errors that their peers may use

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www.padlet.com
Padilha, J.M., Machado, P. P., Riberio, A. L., & Ramos, J. L. (2018). Clinical virtual stimulation in nursing education.  Clinical Stimulation in Nursing, 15, 13-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecns.2017.09.005