Developing Teaching Learning Strategies
for the Nursing Simulation Laboratory

The purpose of the Learning Community (LC) is to design teaching strategies that promote development of critical thinking skills of nursing students and nurse clinicians in the safe environment of a simulation laboratory.  A partnership between expert nursing faculty and hospital clinicians will explore opportunities to bridge the education/practice gap by planning consistent methodologies that facilitate effective decision-making and promote an attitude of lifelong learning.  The partners will produce valid exemplary models and a template to structure learning experiences using responsive human patient simulators by which future programs may be developed.

• to create an active partnership of learning between nursing practice and education
• to involve students, clinicians, and faculty in developing the learning environment around current best practices
• to explore models of teaching learning appropriate to the level of technology in the simulation laboratory; and,
• to produce a teaching learning template for structuring use of the laboratory for maximum benefit of all users.

During the formative stage of the LC, members will design strategies by which what is learned and created will be shared. Particularly, there will be opportunities for hospital staff to participate in presentations at the American Hospital Association, both statewide and nationally. Faculty can plan to present at the state association of ADN programs and perhaps publish results in a number of educationally focused nursing journals. In addition, recently the National League for Nursing has called for “experts” in the area of simulation learning methodologies which may also afford an opportunity to share LC outcomes.

Click here to download the Portrait of Practice (pdf).

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