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Cathleen A Evans1, Rose Schwartz
1About the Authors Cathleen A. Evans, PhD, RN, is an assistant professor at Widener University School of Nursing, Chester, Pennsylvania. Rose Schwartz, PhD, RN, is associate dean of academic affairs and an associate professor at Widener University School of Nursing. Dr. Evans is thankful and acknowledges support for development of the classroom tabletop exercise for use in nursing research from her Dissertation Committee, Dr. Mary Baumberger-Henry, chair, and Dr. Tener Veenema, member. For more information, contact her at cae0325@gmail.com or caevans@widener.edu.
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Transferring previous learning to novel and unfamiliar health care situations is a challenge that nurses face daily. As a nursing classroom experience, tabletop exercises provide nursing students with open-ended decision-making opportunities to manage realistic practice problems. This article describes an innovative tabletop exercise with a disaster healthcare context and patient scenarios that senior nursing students used to demonstrate foundational nursing education knowledge, skills, and abilities. Students demonstrated a transfer of knowledge from early medical-surgical coursework to a complex, novel situation using the nursing process and evidence-based clinical judgment.
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