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School of Nursing & Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin: 8 th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Conference
Transforming Healthcare Through Research, Education & Technology: 7 th – 9 th November 2007
Conference Proceedings
Appendix 3
Revisions to Simulation Design
Groups of six or seven students are divided into two care-giving
teams and will rotate through the following stations. In the interest
of time and resource conservation, some groups will begin with the
report station while others will begin with the critical incident
station. Each simulation day can accommodate 35 students.
Report Station: Patient report will be posted online in MP3 format.
Students will be instructed to listen to report before their scheduled
simulation and complete an assignment sheet and develop a format
for organizing report data. Both the assignment and the patient
notes will be turned in on the day of their simulation. This portion
of the simulation will receive a letter grade that is weighted as part
of their didactic grade. The report station will run for 30 minutes
and entail a faculty facilitated discussion of the students’ identified
priorities and how they delegated care when creating the
assignment.
Patient Care Station: This 60 minute segment will focus on
patient assessment, pain management, medication administration,
and documentation. One faculty member will facilitate clinical
decision making while a second faculty member will facilitate a
patient transfer and admission. Interdisciplinary team members
(medicine, pharmacy, social work, hospital administration) will be
present during this time.
Interdisciplinary Care Conference Station: This 30 minute
session will focus on the interdisciplinary needs of select patients.
Participants will include the nursing care team and members of
various health care professions including medicine, pharmacy,
dietary, physical therapy and social services. Patient focus will
change between groups to ensure that discussion between student
groups does not provide one group with an advantage over the
other. A faculty member will facilitate discussion.
Critical incident station: Three faculty members will facilitate this
45 minute station that addresses key critical incidents that every
new graduate should be familiar with managing: patient restraints,
patient falls, and working with a patient with a depressed mood and
potential for self-harm. Students will divide into groups of 2 or 3
and rotate 15 minutes between each segment.
Debriefing: This 30 minute session allows students to provide
feedback regarding the experience as well as for the faculty
facilitator to reinforce key clinical points when a knowledge deficit is
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