Cheryl L DeGraw
Central Carolina Technical College, USA
Title: Admission to discharge: obstetric simulated clinical experiences
Biography
Biography: Cheryl L DeGraw
Abstract
With an increase in nursing programs, there is more competition for clinical sites for maternal-newborn clinical rotations. High fidelity simulated clinical experiences are being substituted for hospital clinical rotations. A technical college in the Southeast region of the United States of America is using five-hour simulated clinical experiences in which obstetric and newborn high-fidelity manikins are used as substitutes for hospital clinical rotations. Three patient scenarios are used for the simulated clinical experiences: gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, or preterm labor. Newborn nursing care and maternal complications are also incorporated into the scenarios. This use of simulated clinical experiences has been endorsed by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing and the National League of Nursing as a substitute for hospital clinical rotations. Nursing students have increased understanding of the entire antepartum nursing care to postpartum discharge process by participating in the simulated clinical experiences and are able to obtain hands-on nursing care experience when unable to obtain the clinical experience due to lack of a hospital clinical rotations.