Faculty Publications

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

January 2015

Publication Title

Global Qualitative Nursing Research

Volume

2

DOI

10.1177/2333393615571361

Keywords

simulation, decision making, professional education, ethnography, knowledge construction, nursing education, social participation, teaching / learning strategies

Disciplines

Curriculum and Instruction | Educational Methods | Medical Education | Nursing | Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Abstract

Simulated practice of clinical skills has occurred in skills laboratories for generations, and there is strong evidence to support high-fidelity clinical simulation as an effective tool for learning performance-based skills. What are less known are the processes within clinical simulation environments that facilitate the learning of socially bound and integrated components of nursing practice. Our purpose in this study was to ethnographically describe the situated learning within a simulation laboratory for baccalaureate nursing students within the western United States. We gathered and analyzed data from observations of simulation sessions as well as interviews with students and faculty to produce a rich contextualization of the relationships, beliefs, practices, environmental factors, and theoretical underpinnings encoded in cultural norms of the students’ situated practice within simulation. Our findings add to the evidence linking learning in simulation to the development of broad practice-based skills and clinical reasoning for undergraduate nursing students.

Comments

This article was published in Global Qualitative Nursing Research, volume 2, 2015. It can also be found online at this link. Susan G. McNiesh, Cultural Norms of Clinical Simulation in Undergraduate Nursing Education, Global Qualitative Nursing Research, volume 2. Copyright © The Author(s) 2015. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (http://www.uk.sagepub.com/aboutus/openaccess.htm).

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