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Authentic patients, authentic learning: Involving aged care participants as simulated patients in nurse education
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Authentic patients, authentic learning: Involving aged care participants as simulated patients in nurse education

R. Saunders, H. Metcalfe, H. Dugmore and K. White
7th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (iCERi) 2014 (Seville, Spain, 17/11/2014–19/11/2014)
2014
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Engaging health care participants in a simulated role in order to have a positive impact on the education and delivery of care by health professional remains a relatively new pedagogy. This paper describes an initiative in the discipline of nursing at The University of Western Australia that follows the process of engaging aged care communities in making a positive contribution to nursing student learning. The “Beyond the Teaching Nursing Home: Community Partnership of Learning and Care “project, utilises the principles of simulated patient engagement in the active development of clinical psychomotor and communication skills for nursing students in a simulated clinical learning environment. Students are able to practise different scenarios and responses in order to develop appropriate knowledge, skills and confidence followed by patient-referenced feedback. Students identify the advantages of having authentic patients contributing to their authentic learning.

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