Clinical Simulations in Nursing Education
Advanced Concepts, Trends, and Opportunities
NLN Series

While confronting many challenges related to changes in health care, higher education, and clinical practice, nurse educators are exploring new opportunities for innovative teaching/learning methods, new clinical models, and educational practices to provide high-quality education to promote optimal, quality patient care. Clinical simulations can provide health care educators one approach to create student-centered, experiential environments that engage and prepare the learner for real-world practice.

Clinical Simulations in Nursing Education: Advanced Concepts, Trends, and Opportunities provides chapters authored by expert simulation researchers, educators, and users to shed light on important advancements and emerging topics in clinical simulation including:
 • Enhanced interprofessional education and practice through simulation
 • Meaningful debriefing
 • Expansion of clinical simulation globally
 • Development of a good business plan and consideration of the economic model of a simulation center
 • Research and evaluation of clinical simulation
 • High-stakes simulation
 • Certification of educators and accreditation of simulation centers

About the Editor vii
About the Contributors ix
Foreword xix
Preface xxi
List of Figures and Tables xxix
Chapter 1 History and Evolution of Simulations: From Oranges to Avatars 1
Chapter 2 Faculty Development to Implement Simulations: Strategies and Possibilities 9
Chapter 3 Clinical Simulations Focused on Patient Safety 22
Chapter 4 Meaningful Debriefing and Other Approaches 44
Chapter 5 Interprofessional Education Using Clinical Simulations 58
Chapter 6 Serious Gaming Using Simulations 71
Chapter 7 Second Life and Other Virtual Emerging Simulations 90
Chapter 8 Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness When Using Simulations 101
Chapter 9 Developing and Using Simulation for High-Stakes Assessment 113
Chapter 10 Unfolding Simulation Cases: Purpose and Process 122
Chapter 11 Developing a Research Focus in Simulations 135
Chapter 12 Evaluation Tools and Metrics for Simulations 145
Chapter 13 Implementing Clinical Simulations in the Clinical Practice Arena 165
Chapter 14 Incorporating Simulations into the Curriculum: Undergraduate and Graduate 178
Chapter 15 Certification in Clinical Simulations: The Process, Purpose, and Value Added 191
Chapter 16 Incorporating an Electronic Health Record and Other Technologies into Simulations 207
Chapter 17 Using Simulations to Promote Clinical Decision Making 219
Chapter 18 Technological Considerations to Run and Manage a Simulation Center 228
Chapter 19 Using a Consortium Model to Develop a Simulation Center 250
Chapter 20 Clinical Simulation Gone Global: The Use of Simulation in International Settings 266