Simulation Scenarios for Nursing Educators, Third Edition

by Suzanne Campbell PhD RN WHNP-BC IBCLC (Author), Karen Daley PhD RN (Author)

When employed as a substitute for real clinical time, simulation scenarios have proven effective in bridging the gap between theory and practice. This acclaimed text for nursing faculty provides detailed, step-by-step guidance on all aspects of clinical simulation. Appropriate for all levels of nursing students, from pre-licensure to doctoral level, the book contains the authors’ own advice and experiences working in simulation around the globe.

For the third edition, 20 new scenarios have been added, for a total of 57. All scenarios have been updated to adhere to best-practice simulation standards for design, facilitator and participant criteria, interprofessional criteria, and debriefing processes. Scenarios are presented in a structured format that includes objectives, pre-scenario checklists, implementation plans, evaluation criteria, debriefing guidelines, and recommendations for further use. A template for creating scenarios spans the text and includes student preparation materials, forms to enhance the realness of the scenario, and checklists for practice assessment and evaluation.

This comprehensive resource covers geriatric, pediatric, trauma, obstetric, and community-based patient scenarios. This revised edition includes scenarios easily adaptable to an instructor’s own lab, an international perspective, and a section on graduate nursing education.

New to the Third Edition:

20 brand new scenarios in anesthesia, midwifery, pediatric, disaster, and other specialty-focused situations, plus five new chapters
Updated to encompass new simulation pedagogy including best-practice standards
New scenarios easily adapted to an instructor’s own lab
Interprofessional and international scenarios focused on areas of global concern: obstetric hemorrhage, neonatal hypoglycemia, and deteriorating patients
Key Features:

Includes information on how to integrate simulation into curricula
Addresses conceptual and theoretical foundations of simulation in nursing education, including an expanded chapter on the Framework for Simulation Learning in Nursing Education
Includes a wide variety of practical scenarios in ready-to-use format with instructions
Provides a template for scenario development
Delivers recommendations for integration of point-of-care decision-making tools
Offers opportunities for enhancing complexity and incorporating interprofessional competencies

About the Author
Suzanne Hetzel Campbell, PhD, APRN-C, IBCLC, is Director and Associate Professor at University of British Columbia School of Nursing. She specializes in women's health issues and the interface between nursing education and technology (specifically in online learning and simulation laboratories). She is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, a Woman's Health Care Nurse Practitioner, and a member of Sigma Theta Tau. In 2006, she managed the successful application of an HRSA grant for the School of Nursing, gaining nearly $468,000 over three years to help in evaluating simulation activities and directs school of nursing learning resource center. She is a frequent author in peer-reviewed journals and in nursing education books. She received the AJN Book of the Year Award for the second edition of Simulation Scenarios for Nursing Educators. Karen Daley, PhD, RN, is Dean and Associate Professor at Davenport University School of Nursing. Before joining Davenport in 2011, Dr. Daley was Nursing Program Coordinator at Western Connecticut State University, School of Nursing, where she was instrumental in implementing a Human Patient Simulation Program. She specializes in medical-surgical nursing issues and simulation teaching strategies. She gained her doctorate in 2005 from Rutgers. She has published a number of peer-reviewed journal papers and presents at the major nursing meetings. She is a member Sigma Theta Tau, the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, the Simulation Users Network, Eastern Nursing Research Society, and NLN. For several years she was a staff RN at various hospitals. She received the AJN Book of the Year Award for the second edition of Simulation Scenarios for Nursing Educators.