[Real life simulations to train nurses].
Nurses must confront critical potential life threatening situations daily. These are very tense situations which must be solved in a rapid, adequate manner in coordination with the rest of the professional health team. How to deal with these crises, which usually follow an established protocol, must be learned and practiced in a safe environment which provides the greatest possible guarantee of success. The best way to acquire this knowledge and skill is through a real life simulation. Nurses from various disciplines carry out their work in the Training Center for Critical Crises at the Marqués de Valdecilla University Hospital in Santander, the only center in Spain which runs this type of simulation. In 2003, this center initiated a specific training simulation for nurses whose purpose is to increase scientific-technical knowledge to the maximum and accelerate the learning of non-technical social and cognitive fundamentals within the working environment of a professional health team. The following article describes a simulation meeting these characteristics, its teaching methods, advantages, importance for professional health teams, and its repercussions on patients.
Alonso Felpete
Alberto Jesús
AJ
Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla (Quirófano COT), Centro de Entrenamiento en Situaciones Críticas Fundación Marcelino Botín.
Abajas Bustillo
Rebeca
R
De la Horra Gutiérrez
Inmaculada
I
Hoz Cuerno
Verónica
V
Llata Agüero
Gema
G
López López
Luis Mariano
LM
Sánchez Herrán
Beatriz
B
D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008348:Manikins
Simuladores de escala real en el entrenamiento de enfermería.