- Title
- A qualitative study on undergraduate student nurses’ experience of mental health simulation preclinical placement
- Creator
- Olasoji, Michael; Garvey, Loretta; Sadoughi, Navideh; Willetts, Georgina
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/198929
- Identifier
- vital:19120
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecns.2023.101455
- Identifier
- ISSN:1876-1399 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Background: Simulations allow students to be challenged and supported while gaining both technical and non-technical skills within a clinical learning environment. Working in a mental health setting can be quite challenging and confronting at times for undergraduate nursing students in clinical placement. The study aims to explore nursing students’ perceptions of a mental health simulation workshop's impact before clinical placement, which provides a supportive environment to gain technical and non-technical skills while being challenged and supported. Sample: Participants were a second-year cohort (n = 89) of undergraduate nursing students enrolled in a mental health unit. Methods: Descriptive survey design. The researchers thematically analysed narrative responses of a pre- and post-simulation survey from an immersive simulation using a descriptive survey design. Results: The researchers identified six key themes: two from the pre-simulation survey – communication with and assessment of mental health patients, and the opportunity for placement preparation; and four from the post-simulation survey – the opportunity for debriefing, the realism of the simulation, increased confidence levels, and the perception of a safe learning environment. Conclusion: Effective skill acquisition is essential to advance recruitment and retention into mental health environments. The use of mental health simulation that comprises of realism and immersion working with simulated patients provided opportunity to advance this. © 2023
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc.
- Relation
- Clinical Simulation in Nursing Vol. 84, no. (2023), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2023 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 4204 Midwifery; 4205 Nursing; Mental health patients; Nursing students; Simulation; Skill acquisition
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