Overview
- Offers different use of simulation in education
- Educates on the facilitators role
- Provides an overview of virtual reality-based simulation
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
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About this book
This open access book offers an overview of theories related to simulation and describes different simulation areas within nursing. It illustrates how simulation may be used in different levels in professional education. The book deals with the role of the Simulation Facilitator, peer learning and the use of Virtual Reality in simulation. It provides new insights and paths to the development of the use of simulation within nursing and healthcare and contributes with new knowledge from research and experiences of implementation of different simulating scenarios within nursing and midwifery. It is intended to teachers in nursing and other healthcare professionals with an interest in the use of active learning methods.
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Iben Akselbo is an Associate Professor, pediatric nurse and programme leader for master and postgraduate education in anesthesia, pediatric, intensive care and operating room nursing at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. Her teaching and research areas are pediatric nursing and simulation as a learning method in nursing education. She is an Operations Specialist and Simulation Facilitator at unit for healthcare simulation at NTNU and an instructor for Simulation Facilitator-courses.
Ingvild Aune is a Professor in midwifery and programme leader for master in midwifery at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. Her research areas are the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period and simulation as a learning method in nursing education. Aune teaches in research methods, as well as various topics within the normal pregnancy, birth and childbirth. She is a Simulation Facilitatorat unit for healthcare simulation at NTNU.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: How Can we Use Simulation to Improve Competencies in Nursing?
Editors: Iben Akselbo, Ingvild Aune
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10399-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-10398-8Published: 29 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-10399-5Published: 28 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 129
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nursing Education, Nursing Research, Health Care Management