2008 Abstracts of HITS Projects

Bethel University

Replaced one clinical course for fall senior undergraduate students with a course on care of the elderly with a full clinical replacement. Impressed Faculty enough to continue to advocate for simulation to expand future classes.

Brookedale Community College

Project #1: Created a distance learning format for the LPN-RN Advanced Placement challenge support activities. Used Camtasia to create PowerPoint presentations and podcasts which were uploaded into an ANGEL course shell.

Project #2: Created a learning community for faculty development and mentoring in an ANGEL course shell. All full-time and adjunct BCC nursing faculty have access to the learning materials and discussion.

Project #3: Using templates and other information from the HITS program, BCC faculty developed and implemented simulation activities in four clinical nursing courses.

Grand Valley State University

Created website that connects first-semester students in obstetric with last-semester students in community health nursing clinical courses to four neighborhoods where clients, clinical information, resources and learning activities are available. In the obstetrical experience, eight clients were developed with a variety of ages and backgrounds and at different stages of pregnancy. Students are assigned to care for one of the eight clients.

Hunter Belleveue School of Nursing

Transformed the maternal-child practicums into learner-centered experiences focusing on the integration of simulation. Adaptation of simulation experiences will allow hands-on experience with complex deliveries scenarios. Simulation scenarios were used as a quality improvement tool for assessing learner competency in a select number of knowledge and skills.

Indiana University School of Nursing

Undertook a pilot study to determine what sources of information students preferred to use during their clinical rotations. The recruited sample consisted of 40 junior BSN students from two campuses, 20 who currently owned PDAs and a control group of 20 students who did not. The PDA owners were provided with software versions of the drug guide, diagnostic manual and nursing diagnosis books they had purchased in the previous semester. Information gained will help design a PDA implementation program.

Loma Linda University

Used a change process to pilot test the use of PDAs in the curriculum to assess the value and determine best practice prior to implementing usage in the undergraduate program.

Maui Community College

Designed and hosted a website to centrally integrate scholarly references.The specific tools and services on the web site were selected to match the goals and information seeking behaviors of the faculty and students in our community college. Faculty and staff were surveyed to determine which resources they used.

Mericopa Community College at Mesa Community College

Created a web-based electronic documentation system that would allow our ADN students to enhance their electronic documentation skills in simulation and clinical. Beta testing included a pilot group of 30 people including 24 students from all 4 semesters of the ADN program and the foreign educated nurses program along with 6 faculty. Ninety-seven percent (97%) of the participants felt that this tool would be beneficial to use in clinical in place of the current documentation system.

Mott Community College

Facilitated learning and promoted safety practices by using high fidelity simulation as an additional learning strategy for students. Simulation was incorporated into an advanced medical-surgical nursing course with the introduction of two scenarios involving the care of the patient in cardiac arrest and the patient with hypovolemic shock. Interactive on-line orientation modules that utilized multimedia were developed to engage students in preparation for simulation scenarios, and principles of crisis resource management were introduced to promote patient safety in high stakes environments.

North Carolina A & T State University

Integrated the use of technology in the pharmacology course to prepare nursing students to learn, apply and synthesize pharmacologic principles for use in their clinical experiences and future practice as a nurse. Twenty, first semester upper division and four sophomore students participated in the pharmacology simulation during the last week of the Fall 2008 semester. Based on the evaluation, students reported it was a valuable learning experience.

Northcentral Technical College

Goals of project align with our strategic plan and include: all students will have a simulation experience in a clinical course within each semester, an electronic medical record (EMR) will be utilized in simulation, and an electronic student portfolio will be piloted. Results were that in each semester implementing simulation in at least one clinical course, in addition some semesters used this teaching methodology in two clinical courses.

Northern Michigan University

Project #1: Implemented EMR concepts and experience and simulation experience into the BSN curriculum. Integrated EMR concepts and QSEN objectives into one senior level course. The senior nursing students found the EMR concepts and QSEN information helpful prior to graduation and entering the workforce.

Project #2: Used student developed simulation scenarios in a graduate level technology course. All students (seven) enrolled in Technology for Teaching and Learning in Nursing Education in the Post Masters Education Certificate Program (PMECP) at NMU attended a simulation conference in early December 2008 to learn to develop simulations and to learn how to deliver and evaluate simulation experiences. Two students are presently working with NMU faculty to help them develop scenarios and incorporate them into their respective courses.

Nova Southeastern

Assisted faculty and students in obtaining basic knowledge and comfort in using handheld devices. An interactive multimedia tutorial was created with basic information in the use of PDA’s. This web-based tutorial was accessible to both nursing faculty and nursing students. Pre-test and Post tests will determine the volunteer’s level of knowledge and comfort with a PDA before and after the tutorial.

Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing

Focused on the integration of simulation, based on select NLN scenarios and the electronic medical record (EMR) throughout the curriculum of a Baccalaureate nursing program. Simulation was integrated into both the first semester of the junior nursing courses and the second semester senior courses. Students were then asked to complete both the Simulation Design Scale and the Student Satisfaction and Self-Confidence in Learning Instruments.

Simmons College

Project #1: Created a website available to nursing faculty, which includes a compendium of resources to be used for the integration of informatics into the whole nursing curriculum. Introduced website to faculty as a faculty development workshop.

Project#2: New fully on-line DNP course in Informatics was developed for the DNP students and a new module was created in the capstone Leadership and Management course for undergraduate nursing students.

Texas Woman's University

Created an online resource of key informatics concepts. This serves as a resource to increase faculty awareness of informatics and assist them in the curriculum.

University of Alaska Anchorage

Developed a Forensic Nursing course to utilize e-learning principles and options, and incorporate technologies to promote the development and use of online courses among other faculty.

University of Colorado Denver College of Nursing

Addressed six core competencies to enhance patient safety and quality of care in undergraduate and graduate nursing education. The six competencies include: patient safety, quality improvement, team work and collaboration, informatics, patient-centeredness, and evidenced-based practice.

University of Kansas School of Nursing

The simulation pilot project involved using a high fidelity simulator and an electronic health record. Students were given a scenario involving an eight year old with diabetic ketoacidosis, and had to diagnose and manage the patient’s reaction to treatment. Students learned about hypoglycemia, communicated with physician, and home management of diabetes.

Villanova University

Provided oversight for the selection, development and placement of the Electronic Health Record System [EHR] used as part of a high fidelity patient care simulation with junior level students. Results were that the electronic charts are now being adopted in several other courses such as the Assessment and Nursing Foundations courses as well as being considered in several other simulations.

Wesley College

Integrated high fidelity simulation and discussion forums into a client assessment for health promotion course to augment students’ achievements of learning outcomes. This was based on a need for improvement in the organization and completeness of nursing students’ bedside and physical assessment skills. Faculty evaluations of students’ performances in the clinical area post simulation and discussion forum experiences, demonstrated improvements in focused bedside clinical assessment process.

Wichita State University

Initiated and evaluated simulation activities within the SON. Developed four low-fidelity simulation scenarios to be used in the fundamentals course. These were initiated with the accelerated students, revisions were made, and implementation followed with the generic students.