Co-developing and implementing a community nursing simulated learning resource for undergraduate nursing students. (October 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Arnold, Hannah; Willis, Shirley; Watts, Tessa
• Is Part Of: Nurse education in practice. Volume 56(2021)
• Publication Date: 2021-10
• Subjects: Community nursing -- Simulation -- Undergraduate nursing -- Learning and teaching strategies -- Curriculum development -- Primary care nursing -- Simulated learning; Nursing -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Education, Nursing -- Periodicals; Nursing -- Study and teaching; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 610.73071
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2021.103192
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1471-5953

Abstract

Abstract: Policy agendas across the developed world privilege systems transformation, notably shifting the balance of service provision from hospital to community settings. Primary and community health services have pivotal roles in the United Kingdom's longstanding policy ambition of healthcare services transformation, and it is imperative that undergraduate nursing students comprehend community settings as valuable learning environments, places of care and community nurses' roles therein. However, limited community placement learning opportunities means nursing students may be inadequately prepared to work in community settings at the point of initial registration. High fidelity simulated learning is well established within undergraduate nursing curricula. Currently, this learning approach predominantly focuses on acute and secondary care nursing and takes place in simulation centres. Within undergraduate nursing curricula there is limited evidence to support that community-based simulation is utilised with the result that students may struggle to recognise the value of learning opportunities in the community environment. This underpins the rationale for the development of this educational initiative which reflects current health policy agenda of care being provided closer to home. In addition, the new pre-registration 'Future nurse: Standards of proficiencies' (NMC, 2019) acknowledge that registered nurses need to be able to care for people in their own home and in the community setting. This paper describes the co-development and implementation of a pilot, community nursing focused, simulated learning resource within an undergraduate adult field nursing programme in Wales, UK. Tweetable Abstract: How one university co-developed and implemented a community focused simulation resource for undergraduate nursing students. Highlights: Implementation of a community simulation resource for students to safely experience the 'real world' of community nursing. Support students to build upon prior learning and facilitate future active learning in a community setting. Highlighting the importance of integrating theory with practice in the context of care delivery in the community.