title: Using a critical care simulation laboratory to teach students.
abstract: Critical care nursing is a dynamic and continuous process involving knowledge, values and attitudes, and motor skills. When combined with other teaching methods, a critical care simulation laboratory provides learners with an effective means to achieve the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor competencies necessary for the complexities of clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, USA.
authors.forename: P G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Morton
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003162:Competency-Based Education / Q000379:methods*; D003422:Critical Care; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D012381:Role Playing