Preparing Practice-Ready Nurses at Purdue Northwest College of Nursing
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Achieve Competency-Based Education Through Simulation
Competency-Based Education (CBE) ensures learners are practice-ready and equipped with the essential knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed in real-world healthcare settings.
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Choosing the right solution based on what you need to assess
Simulation serves as both a teaching modality and an assessment strategy, enabling students to develop and demonstrate competencies. By observing student performance in simulated scenarios, educators can accurately identify strengths and areas for improvement.
Assess competence at every stage - explore our solutions below
Fundamental Skills
Demonstrates foundational task knowledge and performance hands-on
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Habits that Will Make the Next Level Easier
Healthcare requires a unique combination of complex critical thinking with hands-on manual work. Building vital psychomotor skills early in a learner’s progression towards competency allows learners to later focus on applying those skills effortlessly and without distraction in more challenging situations. Assessing them early using efficient and sometimes automatic means ensures their success.
RQI - Resuscitation Quality Improvement
With adaptive learning technology that customizes training to each learner’s needs, RQI offers data-driven and evidence-based CPR training proven to enhance CPR quality. All curricula incorporate the latest AHA science and resuscitation guidelines.
Solutions for Fundamental Skills
Procedural Skills and Basic Decision-Making
Demonstrates introductory decision-making skills within situational competencies
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Formative Assessments Count
At this stage, learners begin to understand the basics of decision models and care pathways. They begin to perform critical thinking and understand that success and failure are both possibilities. Learners who have had difficulty in summative exams often have not experienced formative or course assessments. Choose a simulation solution that will allow you to assess what is appropriate for your learners to succeed at the next stage in their competency progression.
NextGen vSim® for Nursing
A web-based solution that enable students to exercise clinical judgment and decision-making for gaining relevant clinical experience through virtual simulation. Educators can measure students’ progress, identify weaknesses and deliver instant remediation, giving students the opportunity to demonstrate mastery before moving on to the next phase.
- vSim for Nursing scenarios are authored by the National League for Nursing.
- Included in Lippincott® nursing textbooks, allowing students to follow their patient cases as they evolve.
- Provides access to Lippincott Advisor for up-to-date best practices.
- All vSim for Nursing scenarios have been mapped to the AACN Essentials.
Solutions for Procedural Skills and Basic Decision-Making
Acute Situational Skills and Critical Thinking
Demonstrates advanced decision-making along with team-based competencies
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Assessing Advanced Level Performance
Learners experiencing the benefits of assessments at this level should already be used to formative assessments and to the process of coaching and guided self-reflection. What you need to assess in this area is what you will need to train to. You may be performing summative assessments like Observed Structured Clinical Exams (OSCEs) or you may still be performing formative assessments. In either case, Laerdal offers simulators and digital solutions that can test advanced level decision making in teams during acute emergent situations.
vrClinicals for Nursing
A unique VR solution engaging students in a realistic, busy hospital environment.
- Students are required to prioritize and care for multiple patients while managing interruptions, enhancing decision-making skills.
- Includes guided reflection exercises and measurable feedback for both students and instructors.
- Features NLN-authored content aligned with NextGen NCLEX standards.
MamaAnne
Delivering the highest level of obstetric training with our latest maternal and birthing simulator.
- Build confidence and competence in managing critical obstetric emergencies.
- Realistic birth movements with the Automatic Delivery System.
- Rapid setup facilitates quick transitions between sessions and high throughput of trainees.
- Flexible bleeding solutions using an internal uterus or Clean Bleed Mat provide options for postpartum hemorrhage scenarios – both weighable for blood loss calculations
SimMan® Critical Care
One of the most advanced emergency care patient simulators.
- Providing advanced training in respiratory care, critical care, and anaesthesia.
- Including tetherless mechanical ventilation,
- Enabling learners to progress through transitions of care from pre-hospital to ICU.
- Engage in hands-on learning experiences practicing basic to advanced medical techniques.
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Complex Decision Making
Demonstrates competencies during real clinical practice
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Bringing it all together in a real-world environment
There comes a point in a learner's progression where you will want to introduce your learners to a situationally realistic environment—an environment that challenges and develops their abilities to perform in authentic circumstances. Assessments at this level deserve to be captured and tracked digitally for consistency, efficiency, and transparency. Where simulators are used, we recommend the highest fidelity possible.
SimCapture
A comprehensive cloud-based solution for managing healthcare simulation training, assessment, and debriefing. SimCapture supports CBE by enabling students to demonstrate clinical judgment and competencies, instantly uploading performance data for evaluation against defined standards. It tracks learners' progress at both individual and cohort levels, helping faculty identify those needing remediation and monitor improvement over time. By turning skills practice into insights with digital assessment tools, SimCapture aids in developing better-prepared healthcare workers.
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SimCapture - A comprehensive solution for developing, tracking and verifying competency across every stage
CBE relies heavily on formative and summative assessments. Formative assessments allow learners to deconstruct and improve their performance as they advance. Summative assessments allow them—and you—to appraise their progress at key milestones.
For educators, naturally, this can take time and administrative effort—especially if you are recording your findings manually and on paper.
Effortless assessments
Laerdal’s SimCapture system offers educators and institutions the means to conduct formative and summative assessments quickly and easily. SimCapture is a digitally based system that combines software, video playback, and a structure for evaluations in a way that ensures objectivity, accuracy, and better learning through assessments
Performance tracking for all assessments
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SimCapture can be used with simulators and standardized patients and be customized for any evaluation.
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Maintains a multi-view video record of your learner’s performance for every assessment.
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Automatically captures data for individual and cohort-wide analysis.
How to Use Simulation in Competency-Based Education in Nursing
Our comprehensive e-book is your step-by-step guide to implementing CBE, offering practical strategies, expert insights, and real-world examples.
