Using Video Patient Care Simulations to Enhance Role Identification and Clinical Judgment of Nursing Students and Nurse Practitioner Students.

Using Video Patient Care Simulations to Enhance Role Identification and Clinical Judgment of Nursing Students and Nurse Practitioner Students.

Grant:
Investigating Student Learning Grant (ISL)
Academic Year:
2012 - 2013 (June 1, 2012 through May 31, 2013)
Funding Requested:
$3,000.00
Project Dates:
-
Applicant(s):
hartmanl
clfenske
Overview of the Project:
The purpose of this investigation is to examine the effectiveness of video simulation as a tool to enhance clinical judgment skills of both undergraduate and graduate nursing students. An additional purpose seeks to determine if video simulation assist students with role transition from the registered nurse role to an advanced practice role and from a pre-licensure student to a registered nurse. Video simulation could provide a meaningful, safe, and cost efficient way for educators to reinforce basic and complex nursing knowledge while also promoting excellent clinical judgment skills. It serves to reinforce patient illness concepts that were learned via traditional reading and didactic techniques while engaging the class in dynamic self and group exploration of the application of various patient management strategies.
Final Report Fields
Project Objectives:

1. Examine the effectiveness of video simulation as a tool to enhance clinical judgment skills of graduate and undergraduate nursing students. 2. Determine if video simulation assists students with role transition.

Project Achievements:

The video simulations were very effective as a tool to enhance clinical judgment. Both graduate and undergraduate students who used the video simulations demonstrated increased levels of clinical judgment when observed in hands on simulations. There appeared to be a cumulative effect, as we saw more improvement in clinical judgment when more video simulations were used. Also all students who completed the video simulations self-assessed themselves at a level more in line with their actual performance than those who did not complete the video simulations. It appears that having the opportunity to see a role model in action allows the students to better gauge their own performance. Video simulations were popular with the students, who found them helpful and engaging. These will continue to be used in our classes. There is the hope to make more of these video simulations and use in them a variety of graduate and undergraduate nursing courses.

Continuation:
The video simulations will continue to be used in class.
Dissemination:
This project and its results were disseminated to colleagues at three different national/international conferences and at the CRLT poster session in May.
Advice to your Colleagues:
The help and advice from CRLT was invaluable. We were also able to utilize nursing faculty who acted as research mentors for this project. Completing the hands on simulations was challenging and could not have been accomplished without staff assistance from the clinical learning center at the School of Nursing.
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Source URL: https://crlt.umich.edu/node/85779