title: Snapshots of simulation: creative strategies used by Australian educators to enhance simulation learning experiences for nursing students.
abstract: Simulation in nursing is a flourishing area for nurse educators' practice. Defined as learning that amplifies, mimics or replaces real-life clinical situations, simulation aims to give students opportunity to reason through a clinical problem and make decisions, without the potential for harming actual patients. Educators in nursing are contributing to simulation learning in diverse and creative ways. Yet much of their craft is not being widely disseminated because educators are not always confident in publishing their work. This paper aims to stimulate creative development in simulation by providing short summaries, or snapshots, of diverse approaches that nurse educators are using. The objective is to inspire others to share other ideas in development or in practice that are improving learning for nursing students and practitioners, so that simulation scholarship is advanced. The snapshots presented range from approaches that: better support educators to attend to the whole process of simulation education, give students quick access to short skill-based videos, orientate students to the laboratory environment, harness the power of the group to develop documentation skills, use simulation to enrich lectures, develop multidisciplinary knowledge, and finally, which teach therapeutic communication with children in a fun and imaginative way.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, Institute for Health and Social Sciences Research, Central Queensland University, PO Box 1128, Noosaville, Queensland 4566, Australia. Electronic address: m.mcallister@cqu.edu.au.
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McAllister
authors.forename: Tracy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Levett-Jones
authors.forename: Teresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Downer
authors.forename: Penelope
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Harrison
authors.forename: Theresa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Harvey
authors.forename: Kerry
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Reid-Searl
authors.forename: Kathy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lynch
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Arthur
authors.forename: Janice
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Layh
authors.forename: Pauline
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Calleja
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D003405:Creativity; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D018794:Problem-Based Learning / Q000379:methods*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D014743:Videotape Recording
keywords: Learning; Nursing; Role play; Simulation; Video