Moving Forward: Taking Simulation to the Next Level in Nursing Education
This webinar is hosted by the Faculty Leadership Network.
Webinar Description
Simulation in nursing education provides an excellent learning opportunity in healthcare education to improve patient safety, promote nursing excellence in clinical practice, and enhance patient outcomes. The presentation will highlight the most current International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice and provide a review of the new AACN Essentials as it relates to integrating modes of simulated learning experiences into nursing education. The webinar will conclude with face-to-face and virtual simulation teaching and learning.
Objectives
- Explore the 2021 revisions to the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL)
- Determine new directions for simulation faculty development
- Examine future simulation opportunities for the classroom and beyond
Note: Recording of the webinar will be available soon after the webinar airs. Visit AACN's On-Demand Webinars to watch.
Speakers
Debbie Rickeard, DNP, MSN, BScN, BA, RN, CNE, CCRN
Experiential Learning Specialist
University of Windsor
Debbie Rickeard is an Experiential Learning Specialist and faculty member at the University of Windsor, Faculty of Nursing. She has a diverse clinical background in the areas of critical care, heart failure, cardiac transplant, and medical surgical nursing. Aside from almost 40 years of clinical practice, Debbie Rickeard has been a clinical educator and faculty at both the university and college levels. Content areas taught include medical-surgical classes in the second and third year of the program, anatomy and physiology, pharmacology, and a fourth-year transition into practice class. Along with theory classes, Debbie is co-manager of the simulation lab. Scenarios are developed for each year of the undergraduate program as well as the graduate level and in collaboration with the School of Medicine.
At the beginning of the pandemic, Debbie developed and presented a virtual national workshop through the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing on Building Practice Competencies Virtually Among Baccalaureate Nursing Students. During the three sessions of the workshop, presentation participants learned how to select virtual simulation modalities to develop practice competencies among their students, including clinical reasoning, clinical judgment, relational abilities, and technical and procedural skills. Through funding from the Ontario government, Debbie was instrumental in developing virtual simulation games (VSGs) for the nurse practitioner programs. The development of the VSGs and the pivoting from face-to-face simulation have been presented at research conferences through the University of Windsor.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to deans, faculty, staff and students from AACN member schools of nursing. All non-member audiences will be required to pay a $59 webinar fee.
Continuing Education Credits
Eligible attendees may receive one continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hour for participating in this webinar. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is an accredited CNE-provider by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.