{"id":72536,"date":"2016-11-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/mock-scenarios-featuring-actors-bring-realism-to-uris-nursing-simulation-classrooms\/"},"modified":"2016-11-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T00:00:00","slug":"mock-scenarios-featuring-actors-bring-realism-to-uris-nursing-simulation-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/mock-scenarios-featuring-actors-bring-realism-to-uris-nursing-simulation-classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Mock scenarios featuring actors bring realism to 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s nursing simulation classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, RI, November 3, 2016<\/strong> \u2014 The young woman cradling the bundled-up baby at the back of the room appears anxious and standoffish. The two dozen 溏心vlog免费B站 freshman nursing students huddled around the bed of an infant with a racing heart across the way barely notice. After several minutes, student Jillian Bernier of Woonsocket, R.I.,<\/strong> approaches her.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you OK,\u201d she asks. A classmate hands Bernier a stethoscope. \u201cLet\u2019s just take a look,\u201d she says to the mom, who won\u2019t budge. \u201cHave you felt her temperature,\u201d she asks, getting no answer.<\/p>\n

\u201cHelp me,\u201d Bernier mouths to classmates, who keep their distance. \u201cI\u2019m so scared right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two students wheel over a bassinet, but the mom won\u2019t put the baby down. The entire class exchanges confused glances.<\/p>\n

Then Maureen Hillier, simulation educator and assistant clinical professor at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Nursing, enters the room. She ends the mock nursing scenario and asks students to join her for a debriefing. Hillier reveals that the \u201cmom\u201d is really junior nursing student Sara Kingsborough of Coventry, R.I<\/strong>., and the \u201cbaby\u201d is a mannequin. The scenario was arranged to add a layer of realism to the college\u2019s simulation laboratories, a critical component of nursing education.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe try to mimic the situations they will find in real life, to make nursing tangible,\u201d Hillier says. \u201cYou can\u2019t plan a seizure in a clinical rotation. You can <\/em>plan that in a sim lab.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Todd Madison, instructional technology manager for 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Nursing, monitors students from the control room of the simulation laboratory in White Hall on the Kingston Campus. Photo by Nora Lewis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nearly 100 freshmen got a first dose of the simulation labs this fall and will return several times as upperclassmen. The labs are set up to mirror hospital settings, with a range of \u201cpatients\u201d \u2014 interactive mannequins that cough, breathe, speak, cry, vomit and exhibit vital sign changes. Although directed by an instructor, high-quality simulation also depends on Todd Madison, an instructional technology manager at the College. Madison drives the action from behind one-way glass in a darkened control room. The instructors monitor and assess students\u2019 responses to scenarios.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has been the backbone of the simulation program,\u201d Hillier says of Madison, who spearheaded recent upgrades: acquiring more sophisticated mannequins, building wall dividers to impart a busy health-care setting and streaming live simulation into the classroom.<\/p>\n

Sometimes Madison voices a \u201cpatient\u201d from the control room. \u201cWe want to crank the pressure up a bit. We can program in a medical error or have graduate assistants play the role of family members,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

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溏心vlog免费B站 College of Nursing students listen to the heart of an interactive baby mannequin in the simulation laboratory at White Hall on the Kingston Campus. Photo by Nora Lewis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very resource-intensive enterprise, and we want to do it well,\u201d says Hillier, a Westboro, Mass.<\/strong>, resident and a 溏心vlog免费B站 nursing alumna. She led simulation education at Boston Children\u2019s Hospital, remains on that faculty part time and began teaching clinical rotations for 溏心vlog免费B站 nursing students at Children\u2019s three years ago. Hillier returned to 溏心vlog免费B站 this fall to give something back, she says, introducing the actor component to simulation this semester.<\/p>\n

During the class when Madison put the baby mannequin in cardiac distress, the students became anxious. Then Kingsborough walked in, adding confusion. \u201cWe push you to the edge of the cliff but we are never going to let you fall off. That\u2019s where some of the best learning takes place,\u201d Hillier tells the students later.<\/p>\n

The students share their feelings (confusion and surprise), and Hillier reassures them that they have not failed their first test. \u201cYou can practice here in a safe environment,\u201d she says. \u201cYou are never graded on what happens here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hillier asks Bernier about the interaction with Kingsborough. \u201cHelp us to understand what drove you to take steps to ask what\u2019s wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just my instinct; I kind of always have had that in me,\u201d Bernier says. \u201cI want to take care of the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCongratulations, you completed the first stage of the nursing process: assessment,\u201d Hillier concludes.<\/p>\n

The learning that takes place in the student-centered debriefing is as important as the simulation, she notes. One by one, the freshmen share what the unscripted experience taught them: Work together, be confident, pay attention, address a problem as soon as you see it, be kind.<\/p>\n

All are valuable lessons for nursing in the real world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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