title: [Improved utilization of simulation facilities "Knowing is not doing it, neither is having seen it done"].
abstract: A survey was undertaken in 1992 of second, third and fourth your students (N = 155) of a four year baccalaurius degree course in nursing. A questionnaire was designed to: determine how often the students visited the simulation facilities; identify all factors influencing the frequency with which they used the facilities; make recommendations for better utilization of the facilities and to ascertain the affective response of the students regarding simulated clinical practice sessions. On the strength of the findings the Department concerned decided to allocate a clinical tutor to the simulation laboratories in order to: make the laboratories more accessible to students; identify nursing skills which students found problematic and to schedule compulsory supervised practice sessions; plan and prepare the physical environment for practice sessions; point out the correct application of basic principles during the performance of nursing skills; help the students to apply their cognitive knowledge; and supervise directly or indirectly while students practised nursing skills. Five months after the implementation of the above decisions a statistically significant difference (p.05) was demonstrated in the nursing skills potential between the second year students of 1991 and 1992.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mulder
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: MacKenzie
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D016544:Patient Simulation; D013664:Teaching Materials
vernacular_title: Beter benutting van simuleringsfasiliteit "ken is nie kan nie, gesien ook nie".