Focus of Study: Simulation Technology Clinical Trial
Official title:
Knowledge Transfer and Retention of Simulation-based Learning for Neurosurgical Instruments: a Randomized Trial of 100 Perioperative Nurses
Rapid technological advances in the last 20 years have led to the exponential adoption of simulation-based learning in nursing education.
Simulation-based learning is designed to engage, challenge and enrich the learner's knowledge
base and skill set. It presents the opportunity to experience a variety of clinical
scenarios, both common and uncommon, in a safe environment allowing repeated skills training
and facilitating the transfer of classroom-knowledge to real situations.Research demonstrates
that simulation can improve student engagement and learning and is being increasingly used as
an educational strategy for nursing students. This prospective randomized controlled study
that was undertaken with the following goals:
1. to investigate the effectiveness of simulation-based training in a large sample of
perioperative nurses, measured as nurses' learning progress in the simulation
environment;
2. to determine whether the learning acquired through this training is transferable to
recognizing real surgical instruments; and
3. to evaluate whether simulation-based learning is retained at least one week.
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