Capturing challenges in clinical practice and preparing students through learning from authentic challenges in Room of Horror training.

Prosjektsamandrag

 Project title: Capturing challenges in clinical practice and preparing students through learning from authentic challenges in Room of Horror training

Introduction: The Ministry of Education and Research's Strategy for Educational Research 2020-2024 emphasizes the need for more research on quality in higher education, professional education, practice, student-active learning methods and digitalization. Interaction, sustainability and innovation are key elements of Western Norway University of Applied Sciences professional and working life-oriented profile and digitalization^[1]. There is a lack of research about the challenges that specialist nurses in training encounter during clinical practice periods. A better understanding of these challenges would contribute with valuable input to simulation training and preparation for future roles in nursing practice and thereby to bridging the theory-practice gap. Patient safety is a priority in health service. Two recent dissertations by specialist nurses in Bergen, show the importance of surgical safety checklists and teamwork to improve patient safety and care^[2]. While the importance of identifying hazards and errors has been recognized as essential skills, error management training has not been much investigated among nurses in specialist training.

Aim: The overall aim of the project is to contribute to the understanding of how simulation-based education can be used to better prepare nurses in specialist training in anesthesia, intensive care, and operating room nursing (AIO) and residents in specialist training for challenges they will encounter in clinical placement and work life. The project focuses particularly on the participating students’ challenges, learning and development by addressing different  questions during their clinical practice.

 

 

 

 

 

^[1] www.regjeringen.no/contentassets/8b5e5ebb145540f581c9996ef164acfb/kd_strategi-for-utdanningsforskning-2020-2024.pdf 

^[2] Storesund, A (2020) A study on effects of safety checklists emphasizing quality of complication data. University of Bergen og Wæhle, H.V.(2002) Impact of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist implementation on perioperative work and risk perceptions. University of Bergen.