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Taking Learning to the Next Level

Beatrice Kastenbaum, RN, MSN, CNE

Faculty Role before the Scenario

© 2008 B. Kastenbaum RN, MSN, CNE

Knowledge and Action Join as One

合知一行

Wang Yang Ming is a Chinese Philosopher who lived from 1472-1529.


Good Practice…1. Encourages student/faculty contact.

2. Encourages cooperation among students.

3. Encourages Active Learning.

4. Gives Prompt Feedback.

5. Emphasizes Time on Task.

6. Communicates High Expectations.

7. Respects Diverse Talents and Ways of Learning.


What the students do to prepare

• Check the Bb for your course to find the scenario objectives and patient information.

• Prepare for the simulated patient just as they would use the information to prepare for a real patient.

• What is that diagnosis? What might happen to the patient? What do the drugs do? What are the nursing interventions?


What faculty do to prepare

• Check the Bb for your course to find the Scenario template with complete information about each scenario. Be sure your questions about it are answered.

• Have high expectations for your students.

• Think about the experiences your students are having in clinical practice. Use simulation to extend learning.


Get to know the patients


Get to know the patient’s environment


Let’s Go!• If you are viewing this on-line, take the

opportunity to visit your sim lab soon.

• Get to know– The manikins and their patient personalities– The technology—mediation, microphones,

operating the monitor, operating VitalSim™ products.

– chart, report, any equipment issues.


Homework: Go to the Bb for your course

• Look at the student preparation documents.

• Study the scenario templates.

• Walk through the scenarios with simulation staff and experienced faculty.

• Imagine how you would do the care.

• Imagine how a student will do the care. It will be slower and probably different.


合知一行

Knowledge is the beginning of practice;

Doing is the completion of knowing.

Adapted from The Philosophy of Wang Yang-ming, (1916) translated by Frederick Goodrich Henke. Open Court Publishing Co. New York


Take Home Message

The strength of simulation as a teaching strategy is that the student selects the relevant information needed to function in the scenario.


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