title: When is it okay to cry? An end-of-life simulation experience.
abstract: This article details how a small college of nursing affiliated with a faith-based health care corporation integrated the education of end-of-life care into a megacode simulation. Students participated in a high-fidelity simulated megacode scenario in which the simulator died. Following de-briefing, student groups participated in an additional scenario in which faculty coached them through postmortem care and interaction with a family member and a hospital chaplain. As a result of this multidimensional, interprofessional simulation, students developed heightened skill in applying basic life-saving measures, increased knowledge of and comfort with postmortem care, and increased awareness of the emotions elicited by the experience.
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Bartlett
authors.forename: Jenny
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Thomas-Wright
authors.forename: Holly
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pugh
mesh_terms: D003448:Crying; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D016544:Patient Simulation; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology