Simulated Participants as Health Care Providers: An Innovative Approach to Interprofessional Simulation

With the increased attention to patient safety and quality care in health care, it is imperative that prelicensure health care provider students are taught to collaborate effectively to decrease medical errors. For this project, simulated participants were utilized as health care providers for a simulation in a stand-alone nursing school without affiliation to a medical or allied health school. Both simulated participants and students reacted positively to the experience. This project demonstrated that utilizing simulated participants to portray health care providers in simulation scenarios is a feasible and well-received method of providing learning experiences that emphasize the importance of collaboration.

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By utilizing simulated participants in a stand-alone nursing school, students can be effectively taught to collaborate to reduce medical errors, and both students and participants responded positively to this experience. This method emphasizes the importance of collaboration in providing learning experiences.