Manikins And the Most Effective Solutions

 

Nursing education involves a practice-oriented curriculum in which emphasis is placed on both theoretical knowledge and psychomotor skills. In skill-based education, where learning through practice occupies a central role, it is important to ensure the integration of theoretical knowledge into practice. In this context, simulations represent an innovative teaching method that stimulates a number of senses at the same time among learners. Simulation is a method which can be designed to reflect real-life conditions, and which provides the opportunity to work in contexts that are closer and more representative of real settings. The Multi-Functional Nursing Manikin Kit allows medical students to practice suturing techniques on synthetic skin which resembles the skin of a human patient.

Clinical Solutions

Depending on the clinical situation or scenario; the simulation method will involve a student or a group of students performing a number of patient care activities on a manikin, player or standardized patient. The simulation method allows students to repeatedly practice their clinical skills until they develop a sense of proficiency; to learn at their own pace; and to freely make mistakes. Simulations are an educational process that can replicate clinical practices in a safe environment. Nursing students who take part in education programs involving simulations perform less medical mistakes in clinical settings, and are able to better develop their critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills. For these reasons, we recommend that simulations, which represent an interactive learning method, are rendered more common in institutions providing nursing education.

·        Reduces training variability and increases standardization

·        Can be customized for individualized learning

·        Is truly student-centered, experiential learning instead of passive learning

·        Allows for independent critical-thinking and decision-making, and delegation

·        Allows Immediate feedback

·        Offers opportunity to practice rare and critical events

·        Can be designed and manipulated

·        Allows calibration and update

·        Can be reproduced

·        Occurs on schedule

·        Offers opportunities to make and learn from mistakes

·        Is safe and respectful for patients

Literature supports the idea that simulation-based education with deliberative practice can achieve specific clinical goals relating to patient safety. Meanwhile, the National League of Nursing has endorsed study findings that conclude that simulation can be substituted for up to 50 percent of traditional clinical experiences.