Open AccessTraining Situational Awareness for Patient Safety in a Room of Horrors: An Evaluation of a Low-Fidelity Simulation Method
Author(s) -
Chantal Zimmermann,
Annemarie Fridrich,
David Schwappach
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of patient safety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.546
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1549-8425
pISSN - 1549-8417
DOI - 10.1097/pts.0000000000000806
Subject(s) - situation awareness , situational ethics , feeling , health care , fidelity , patient safety , psychology , occupational safety and health , simulated patient , health professionals , nursing , medicine , applied psychology , medical emergency , social psychology , computer science , telecommunications , pathology , aerospace engineering , engineering , economics , economic growth
To protect patients from potential hazards of hospitalization, health care professionals need an adequate situational awareness. The Room of Horrors is a simulation-based method to train situational awareness that is little used in Switzerland.