Preparing Clinicians for Transitioning Patients Across Care Settings and Into the Home Through Simulation.

ABSTRACT: Assuring home care staff competencies through simulation has the potential to improve care transitions and clinical outcomes. Recreating a home environment can be used for orientation of home care staff and to meet other learning needs. Lessons learned from the use of simulation in a geriatric nursing course in a prelicensure program can be used to prepare clinicians for transitioning patients across care settings. With simulation, learners can identify challenges in patient safety, pain management, and management of patients' cognitive decline as well as learn how to communicate with patients, family members, and the healthcare team. Simulation, as an interactive pedagogy, provides opportunities for learners to practice assessment, monitoring, and patient care in a controlled, safe, risk-

SUBMITTER: Molloy MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6042971 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul/Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature