Human Simulation for Nursing and Health Professions

This comprehensive guide to establishing and managing a human simulation lab takes the reader step by step through the process of planning, organizing, implementing, and maintaining a simulation lab. It describes the required technology, how to train standardized patients, how to implement a simulation, evaluation and analysis of the simulation experience, and how to develop a business plan. The guide details simulation in undergraduate and graduate nursing programs, physician’s assistant programs, and mental health education, as well as the use of simulation with critically ill patients, and in perioperative, perianasthesia, women’s health, and rehabilitation science settings. The resource also contains case studies, tools for evaluation and analysis of the simulation experience, and templates for writing cases for BSN and MSN levels. Copyright 2011.