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Volume 3 Advanced Practices in Nursing
ISSN: 2573-0347 Advanced Nursing Research 2018
June 14-15, 2018
June 14-15, 2018 | Dublin, Ireland
48th World Congress on
Advanced Nursing Research
Admission to discharge: Obstetric simulated clinical experiences
Cheryl L DeGraw
Central Carolina Technical College, USA
With an increase in nursing programs, there is more competition for clinical sites for maternal-newborn clinical rotations.
High fidelity simulated clinical experiences are being substituted for hospital clinical rotations. A technical college in
the Southeast region of the United States of America is using five-hour simulated clinical experiences in which obstetric and
newborn high-fidelity manikins are used as substitutes for hospital clinical rotations. Three patient scenarios are used for
the simulated clinical experiences: gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, or preterm labor. Newborn nursing care and maternal
complications are also incorporated into the scenarios. This use of simulated clinical experiences has been endorsed by the
National Council of State Boards of Nursing and the National League of Nursing as a substitute for hospital clinical rotations.
Nursing students have increased understanding of the entire antepartum nursing care to postpartum discharge process by
participating in the simulated clinical experiences and are able to obtain hands-on nursing care experience when unable to
obtain the clinical experience due to lack of a hospital clinical rotations.
Biography
Cheryl L DeGraw has many years of experience in Maternal-Child Nursing Care. She is a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner and has provided nursing care in labor and delivery,
all three levels of the Newborn Nursery, and in Postpartum or Mother-Baby Units. She is currently the Lead Instructor for Family-Centered Nursing Care at a Technical
College in South Carolina. She developed obstetric simulated clinical experiences (SCEs) to provide alternative clinical rotations to hospital settings when they are
unavailable for nursing students. These SCEs have increased nursing student’s understanding of the antepartum, intrapartum postpartum and newborn nursing care.
Cheryl L DeGraw, Adv Practice Nurs 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.4172/2573-0347-C2-020