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Simulated Participants as Health Care Providers: An Innovative Approach to Interprofessional Simulation
Jennifer Gunberg Ross1, Colleen H Meakim, Stacy Grant Hohenleitner
1About the Authors The authors are faculty at M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania. Jennifer Gunberg Ross, PhD, RN, CNE, is associate professor. Colleen H. Meakim, MSN, RN, CHSE, ANEF, is clinical assistant professor and director, Second Degree BSN Track. Stacy Grant Hohenleitner, PhD, RN, NE-BC, NHA, is adjunct clinical professor. Patricia Prieto, MBA, RN, CHSE, is simulation operations specialist, Simulation and Learning Resource Center. Arlene Solnick, MSN, RN, is former director, Simulation and Learning Resource Center. Kathleen Williams Yates, MSN, RN, is clinical assistant professor. Bing Bing Qi, PhD, RN, is associate professor. This work was supported by the Villanova University Institute for Teaching and Learning, the Alpha Nu chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International, and the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning. For more information, contact Dr. Ross at jennifer.ross@villanova.edu.
Abstract:
With the increased attention to patient safety and quality care in health care, it is imperative that prelicensure health care provider students are taught to collaborate effectively to decrease medical errors. For this project, simulated participants were utilized as health care providers for a simulation in a stand-alone nursing school without affiliation to a medical or allied health school. Both simulated participants and students reacted positively to the experience. This project demonstrated that utilizing simulated participants to portray health care providers in simulation scenarios is a feasible and well-received method of providing learning experiences that emphasize the importance of collaboration.
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