The faculty and staff of the school of nursing and health sciences (SON) strive to provide a safe and effective environment in which students can practice and learn essential clinical care skills. This policy and procedure manual has been developed to provide guidance in the utilization and maintenance of the Virtual, Simulation & Clinical Skills Laboratory (VSL) by both students and faculty.
Faculty, clinical instructors and facilitators are to review the Policy and Procedure Manual prior to use of the VSL.
Students are oriented by VSL personnel and/or faculty to applicable policies and procedures before their first experience in the VSL; and. as needed.
The primary goal for the VSL is to provide a safe, clean, orderly, and supervised environment in which students can attain a basic level of competency in performing course and program required clinical nursing skills. The VSL coordinator is responsible for enforcing the guidelines outlined in this policy.
Simulation is: A technique that creates a situation or environment to allow persons to experience a representation of a real event for the purpose of practice, learning, evaluation, testing, or to gain understanding of systems or human actions. It is an educational technique that replaces or amplifies real experiences with guided experiences that evoke or replicate substantial aspects of the real world in a fully interactive manner (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), 2020). A pedagogy using one or more typologies to promote, improve, or validate a participant's progression from novice to expert using method for implementing a model over time. (INACSL, 2013).
Pre-briefing: An activity immediately preceding the start of a simulation activity where the participants receive essential information about the simulation scenario, such as background information, vital signs, instructions, or guidelines. Included in this is also the information and guidelines given to faculty or simulated patients participating in a scenario to allow them to fully prepare for interactions with the participants (AHRQ, 2020).
Evaluation: Measures quality and productivity against a standard of performance. Evaluation may be formative, summative, high stakes, or related to the simulation program or process (AHRQ, 2020).