Open AccessNursing students’ experience in performing intimate clinical procedures via high fidelity Mask-Ed simulation
Author(s) -
Jane Frost,
Lori Delaney
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
bmj simulation and technology enhanced learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 2056-6697
DOI - 10.1136/bmjstel-2017-000293
Subject(s) - asepsis , likert scale , psychomotor learning , nursing , urinary catheter , medicine , bachelor , fidelity , medical education , psychology , catheter , surgery , computer science , telecommunications , developmental psychology , cognition , archaeology , psychiatry , history
Didactic clinical skills training employing low fidelity simulation has been the traditional approach to teaching undergraduate nursing students the insertion of an indwelling urinary catheter. This approach, however, does not adequately prepare students for the intricacies and complexity of this procedure in the real world, which is associated with high rates of infection secondary to procedural contamination.