(71) Driving SUCCESS: A Hybrid High-Fidelity Simulation to Enhance Undergraduate Nursing Education

Abstract : Undergraduate nursing education has relied on in person clinical experiences to increase practice readiness. Simulated encounters can effectively provide experiences that bridge the critical educational gap in the pediatric subspecialty. This hybrid simulation experience was designed to improve nursing students' knowledge and, thus, improving the expertise of the future nursing workforce. Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory was used to underpin the active hybrid simulation experience to improve essential learning concepts. This theory guided the project by having the learner participate in the experience based on a chosen topic in the accompanying didactic course. The learners participated in the event through active learning, and then a debriefing session occurred to facilitate learner reflection of the experience. The purpose of this presentation is to outline strategies to augment nursing students’ clinical experiences with a hybrid high-fidelity and standardized patient simulation encounter. Learners completed a prebrief assignment then attended a prebriefing session following the International Nursing Association of Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) standards of best practice. The Pearls Healthcare debriefing tool was used for this hybrid simulated event which occurred in the state of the art simulation building at the University of South Alabama. Hybrid simulated encounters are needed to increase undergraduate nursing student knowledge in the prelicensure phase to improve patient outcomes once joining the workforce post-licensure. After reviewing over 500+ post-experience student surveys, this presentation will discuss the survey results showing improvement of student knowledge and enhancement of skills.

Please include a short summary of your presentation that highlights why an attendee would want to participate in your session.: This presentation will discuss the need for hybrid simulations in the undergraduate curriculum. Simulation scenario, prep-work, and post-evaluation criteria will be discussed. It will discuss the improvement of student knowledge and enhancement of skills post-simulation.