It is important to incorporate standardized patients into nursing and CNA practice scenarios. Safety, consistency and flexibility are just a few of the benefits. Using standardized patients also improves students’ assessment and critical thinking skills. But creating a standardized patient scenario – and the necessary scripts, props, reflection questions, etc. – can take a lot of time. Time is, of course, a hot commodity for any healthcare instructor.
Out-of-the-box kits like our new Nursing and CNA Skills simulation kits can help. They include interactive learning aids, prop lists, step-by-step instructions and debriefing activities. With these kits, nursing and CNA instructors can easily implement standardized patient scenarios… and in turn, help their students practice in-demand healthcare skills.
5 features healthcare instructors love about our new Nursing and CNA Skills Sim Kits
Healthcare instructors have told us they also appreciate these aspects of our new kits:
- Focus on soft skills. These kits enable instructors to create scenarios that are focused on both clinical and soft skills. In this technology-driven world, students need to practice talking to a real person in a professional, caring way.
- Empathy development. Each kit includes hands-on simulation tools that allow students to feel what it is like to be a person with a certain condition. For instance, our CNA kits include visual impairment glasses and a Hemiplegia Simulator. These tools let students experience what it’s like to live with those visual and physical challenges.
- Both students as learners. These kits enable instructors to create scenarios where all roles are learners. One role learns empathy as the patient, while the other role learns valuable clinical skills.
- Reflection. According to instructors who use these kits, their students enjoy the debriefing activities the most. Debriefing is a time of individual and group reflection. Discussing the topics addressed by each scenario is not only educational for the students, but it allows them to learn from each other.
- INACSL-compliant. We followed the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) Standards of Best Practice for Simulation when creating these kits to ensure they were as user-friendly as possible.
Which kit is right for you?
Each of our skills simulation kits addresses a specific topic. Depending on what you teach in your program, one or multiple kits might work best for you.
Our Nursing Skills Sim Kits focus on three topics:
- Geriatric Medication Administration
- Pediatric Care
- Adult Acute Care
Our CNA Skills Sim Kits focus on two topics:
- Sensory Impairment
- Mobility Impairment
Resources for learning more
Looking for more information on nursing and CNA skills simulation kits? Consider these resources:
- Check out this blog for tips on designing simulation-based lessons in a post-COVID world
- Get tips for engaging future health care professionals by watching this on-demand webinar
- Explore all of our health science training kits
