(59) Improving Nursing Workforce Readiness for Practice and Retention: Creation of a Multi-patient Simulation Learning Experience

Abstract :

Background: Research supports the need for senior-level undergraduate nursing students to develop leadership skills to transition from academia effectively and safely into their professional practice. Historically, traditional pre-licensure students typically care for only one to two patients in the clinical setting (Ross et al., 2022). This current model does not provide the necessary training and lends to new graduate nurses feeling a sense of transition shock, being overwhelmed and underprepared as they enter the professional workforce (Blodgett et al, 2016; Ross et al., 2022). Theoretical Framework: Faculty bridged this readiness for practice gap by creating an innovated, multi-patient simulation experience using the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INASCL): Standards of Best Practice (2016, December), to guide integration, use and advancement of simulation-based experiences within an academic setting (Watts et al., 2021). Description of the Project: Students participate in a multi-patient simulation, grouped in teams of two, beginning with a facilitator led prebrief, and deliver care for SPs, portraying, a variety of patient acuity diagnoses. The event ends with SPs delivering feedback, students engaging in a mock code, INASCL Standard facilitator debriefing and a guided student reflection. Student objectives include, executing leadership skills, prioritization, clinical reasoning and clinical judgment, appropriate task delegation, time management, safety, effective quality care, and teamwork.

Results: Student evaluations reflect feelings of less stress, and a sense of achievement in meeting clinical competencies.

Conclusion: This simulation provides a real-life experience promoting the transfer and integration of knowledge for students into their professional nursing practice.

Please include a short summary of your presentation that highlights why an attendee would want to participate in your session.: This presentation will demonstrate the process of integrating the INACSL Standards of Best Practice Simulation Design in real-time, creating a multi-patient simulated learning experience. It will address trial-by-fire during the pilot, lending light, using Plan-Do-Study-Act model, a framework for evaluation, allowing for alterations in future iterations, streamlining forward thinking in the delivery of simulation for undergraduate nursing students.