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Aimee Woda1, Theresa Schnable, Penny Alt-Gehrman
1About the Authors Aimee Woda, PhD, RN, BC, is an assistant professor, Marquette University College of Nursing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Theresa Schnable, MS, RN, ACNS-BC, is a clinical instructor and simulation coordinator, Marquette University College of Nursing. Penny Alt-Gehrman, MSN, RN, is an assistant professor, Alverno College, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Marilyn Meyer Bratt, PhD, RN, is associate professor, and Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal, PhD, is a research assistant professor, Marquette University College of Nursing. The authors acknowledge the Marquette College of Nursing Research Office for funding this study, the Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Center for Clinical Simulation staff for their assistance, and the students who volunteered their time to participate. For more information, contact Dr. Woda at aimee.woda@marquette.edu.
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to explore the differences in clinical decision-making and clinical competence between two different cohorts of graduating baccalaureate nursing students from a traditional prelicensure program in the United States. A quasi-experimental design was used to compare students who had substituted their traditional medical-surgical clinical experiences with simulation (Cohort 1, n = 35) with students who had supplementary simulation in addition to their traditional clinical experiences (Cohort 2, n = 36). The findings demonstrated that when simulation was used as a supplement to traditional clinical experiences, participants performed better patient assessments.
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