Effectiveness of Human Patient Simulator as A Classroom Teaching Strategy

BackgroundThe majority of simulation studies have small groups using a human patient simulator in lieu of or as practice before attending clinical experiences with actual patients. In order to increase the use of and exposure to the simulator, the human patient simulator was used in the classroom with 45 associate degree nursing students as a teaching strategy.MethodsA pre–post test design was used to see if there was significant learning that occurred after the classroom simulation. A questionnaire was given to determine if the students were satisfied with this teaching strategy.ResultsThe results showed that significant learning occurred and that the students positively rated the classroom simulation.ConclusionsSimulation activities may be able to be used in larger groups such as in a theory classroom as an interactive, engaged teaching strategy.