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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
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comments that were consistently heard from students that the
project would have been more helpful earlier in their training and
before the alternative experiences in other branch placements.
Interestingly, of the 32 students who ranked the statement about
clinical skill, nearly half of them (14) additionally ranked this
statement as number 1. Indeed, the benefits of learning clinical
skills in this manner are highlighted in statements ranked 1, 4, 5, 6
and 7. Furthermore, for all of these statements relatively high
numbers of students have allocated high rankings to them.
Rank 2 responses (n = 129)
Table 2: Rank 2 responses
Rank Statement No of
1 The simulation can give you ideas and how to start
conversations with patients or how to put patients as
ease or how to explain procedures to patients 4 1 1 1
1 2 1 4 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 3 1 2 1 2 4 3 2 3 1
2 Chance to ask questions, talk about concerns, reflect
on your own practice safely without being judged
2 2 2 1 4 1 1 3 2 3 1 5 2 4 3 2 4 3 2 2 1 1 3 5 3
3 Good learning experience, when mistakes can be
made and lessons learnt on how to improve these
mistakes
1 4 5 5 1 4 1 5 2 2 4 2 4 5 1 2 2 4 2 4 3 1 3 4 3
4 Prefer to learn from real experience
1 2 1 1 5 1 1 2 1 2 3 4 1 1 2 1 4 1 1 2 3 2 1
5 A great way to learn how other students would tackle
a certain situation in a simulated clinical setting 3 3 4
3 3 4 2 3 2 3 3 3 2 3 5 3 4 3 5 1 4
6 Practice simulation could be a good idea especially for
those students with no previous experience 3 1 1 2 4
2 3 3 1 1 1 4 2 5 1 4 1 1
7 I think simulated practice has its limitations as I
found it impossible to act the same in simulations as I
would do in real practice
1 3 1 3 3 3 2 4 1 3 4 3 2 4 1 4
8 Simulators are not ill patients so it is difficult to
interact with them
1 1 5 3 3 5 2 2 4 1 2 1 1
9 More beneficial than workbooks 3 5 5 3 5 4 4 3 5 1 3
3 4
10 It was beneficial as you were able to observe how
others interacted with a simulator 2 2 2 4 4 3 1 2 3 2
4 2
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students
25
For category 2 responses, there was a greater spread, ranging from
25 responses to 0, with twelve responses not being highlighted by
any students, and twenty-four responses being marked by singular
25
25
23
21
18
16
13
13
12