title: Learning to deal with crisis in the home: Part 1--developing community simulation scenarios.
abstract: Contemporary health care is increasingly being located in the community. From the evident changes in demographics and general health, it can be derived that the people whom student nurses care for are likely to have multiple comorbidities and be vulnerable to clinical deterioration. These nurses are required to develop a range of transferrable skills to meet the demands of the population. The challenge for educators of preregistration student nurses is to develop educational strategies to prepare them with the skills, knowledge, and confidence necessary to recognise and manage deterioration appropriately in any context. This article is the first of two papers discussing the stimulus, design, and delivery of an educational innovation that focuses on the recognition and management of the deteriorating patient. The article explores current literature about community-focused simulation highlighting the potential learning opportunities resulting from contextualising simulation scenarios specific to the community setting.
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer in Nursing.
authors.forename: Caroline E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Gibson
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer in Community Nursing.
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dickson
authors.affiliation: Lecturer in Nursing.
authors.forename: Bill
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lawson
authors.affiliation: Lecturer in Nursing, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland.
authors.forename: Helena
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.affiliation: Lecturer in Nursing and Programme Leader BSc Hons Nursing, Queen Margaret University Edinburgh, Scotland.
authors.forename: Ailsa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McMillan
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004630:Emergencies / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D016544:Patient Simulation; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D012606:Scotland; D013222:State Medicine
keywords: deterioration; education; patient simulation; problem-based learning; transfer of learning