Simulation Based Nursing and Paramedical Education

Abstract Simulation Based Nursing and Paramedical Education -Lt Col Aprajita Shukla Introduction-The purpose of this presentation was to study and compare the use of simulation versus nursing and paramedical education in promoting self-confidence and improve skills among nursing and paramedical graduates. Nursing and paramedical simulation is a cross-disciplinary realistic and economical training and feedback method, in which learners can repeatedly practice and review tasks and processes in lifelike circumstances, using physical or virtual reality models, ranging from low to high fidelity, to identify and understand those factors which control the system and/or predict its future behaviour. Goal for using simulations: Optimal Student Learning for High Quality Patient Care. This presentation is based on secondary data to find out use of integrating simulation in nursing and paramedical education to develop and improve skills of health care providers until proficiency is achieved, without harming patients. This presentation provides significant information regarding the uses, benefits, history, future possibilities, advantages, limitations of simulation in nursing and paramedical education and it answers the following questions: Why integrate simulation? Where is improvement needed? What should be the goals? A brief discussion on application of simulation to teaching situations, steps of planning, culture in simulation? important characteristics, simulation-environment, key values for simulation, an eco-system for simulation and ways to adapt simulation. Findings- Improved proficiency in advanced life support following simulation training compared to clinical experience alone. Hospital resuscitation teams trained in advanced life support using simulation can improve patient outcomes following cardiac arrest. Simulation helps in developing and demonstrating critical thinking skills. Providing students with ?real-world? experiences and examples. The future is bright for the use of simulations in nursing and paramedical education. Simulation centers are being built all around the world. Conclusion- It changes faculty assumptions about how students learn and think and to become an essential teaching/assessment evaluation strategy in education of nurses. The incorporation of clinical simulations in nursing and paramedical curriculum is one approach for change in nursing and paramedical education. The main benefits of simulation can be summarized as: experimentation in limited time, reduced analytical requirements and easily demonstrated models. The main limitations are: simulation cannot give accurate results when the input data are inaccurate, cannot provide easy answers to complex questions and cannot solve problems by itself.