Integration of high-fidelity patient simulation in an undergraduate pharmacology course

High-fidelity patient simulations provide unique learning opportunities in undergraduate pharmacology. Every year, adverse drug events in the clinical setting affect thousands of patients. Pharmacology content is often taught independently without a clinical application component. Students have difficulty making the connections between learned content and clinical application; high-fidelity patient simulations provide students with the opportunity to make these connections in a safe environment. Implementing a pharmacological simulation with novice nursing students provides an applied learning experience that promotes knowledge retention, improves clinical judgment, and can produce safe practitioners in the clinical setting. This article discusses high-fidelity patient simulations and provides a pharmacology-based case scenario.