Simulation: A Teaching Strategy in Nursing Education for Safe Practice

Shifting gears in the classroom—movement toward personalized learning and competency‐based education

“…Requiring competency‐based skill sets such as exercises that allow students to demonstrate their prowess with creating, manipulating and evaluating documents could prove useful in our workforce. Radhakrishnan, Balachandran, Venkatesaperumal, and D'Souza () reported benefits of learning new skills in a safe environment. “Simulation, when used as a learning strategy in theory courses, has generally resulted in increases in theory examination scores of 2.5% or greater” (Radhakrishnan et al., , p. 253).…”

“…Radhakrishnan, Balachandran, Venkatesaperumal, and D'Souza () reported benefits of learning new skills in a safe environment. “Simulation, when used as a learning strategy in theory courses, has generally resulted in increases in theory examination scores of 2.5% or greater” (Radhakrishnan et al., , p. 253). At Excelsior College, nursing students are expected to, “…demonstrate theoretical learning and clinical competence” (McCarty & Gaertner, ).…”