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Volume 6, Issue 1 (Suppl) J Nurs Care
ISSN: 2167-1168 JNC, an open access journal Nursing Global 2017
March 01-02, 2017
March 01-02, 2017 Amsterdam, Netherlands
24th Global
Nursing & Healthcare
A phenomenological exploration of the effects of human patient simulation on undergraduate student
nurses confidence to practice in the clinical environment
Harjinder Sandhu
Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada
There is a growing need for undergraduate students to acquire quality placements for clinical practice. However, with the current
state in healthcare, quality placements have been very hard to attain. Therefore, HPS have become the latest trend in many
nursing schools in attempt to address this issue. In this study, HPS has been seen to help with confidence levels for clinical practice.
However, the benefits that students’ take away from the simulation based learning activities is very dependent on how the simulation
is organized, structured and conducted. This notion is supported by the findings of this study. A qualitative phenomenological study
design using two focus groups was used. A convenience sample of students from one educational institution; University of British
Columbia (UBC) in the term three, of their undergraduate nursing degree was emailed an invitation to attend a focus group session.
There were six major themes and multiple sub-themes that came about during this study that impacted how students perceived their
experience with HPS in relation to clinical confidence. The major themes that were evident from the participants’ experiences were
classified as: Realism, building on knowledge, safe environment, critical thinking and confidence and anxiety. From this study, several
conclusions can be drawn about how HPS affects undergraduate student nurses’ confidence for clinical practice. Findings indicate, it
is crucial to feel that the whole simulation experience depicts reality. Realism was the major theme related to clinical confidence. If the
scenario was not simulating enough participants felt, they did not learn much from them. However, during times when simulations
were at the optimal level, participants felt that they acquired many things, such as confidence, clinical techniques, linking theory to
practice, identifying their own knowledge gaps, critical thinking, and background knowledge to help in similar cases in the actual
clinical environment. It is very important that HPS is well integrated into the nursing programs so students achieve great results from
the simulations, which can be done if the simulations being conducted and organized at the right times in the programs.
Biography
Harjinder Sandhu has been working at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) since 2013. Over the years, she has taught in a variety of settings including
laboratory, class and clinical. She has worked within the lab setting and enjoyed teaching with the high-fidelity simulators. In Jan 2017, she will be joining her
lab team and taking on a new role as Simulation Facilitator. Her research project during Graduation at University of British Columbia was related to “Simulation
education and how it affects the competence and confidence of nursing students in the clinical environment”. She completed her Master’s Degree in June 2012.
Harjinder Sandhu, J Nurs Care 2017, 6:1 (Suppl)