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April 27-28, 2017 Las Vegas, USA
19th Global Nursing Education Conference
Volume 6, Issue 2 (Suppl) J Nurs Care
ISSN: 2167-1168 JNC, an open access journal Global Nursing Education 2017
April 27-28, 2017
Nursing and physical therapy student’s attitudes and perceptions following an interprofessional simulation
experience
Lisa R Green
Carroll University, USA
Purpose: Interprofessional education (IPE) has a goal to help improve the patient experience, improve health, and reduce the cost
of health care. Therefore, building IPE into simulations allows students from different disciplines to learn more about roles and
responsibilities, values/ethics, teamwork, and communication. Innursing curricula, it is difficult to involve students in interprofessional
activity in the clinical setting, so a learning activity was implemented to give nursing students the opportunity to communicate with
another profession.
Methodology: A quasi-experimental pretest/post-test design was conducted to explore the effects of an interprofessional simulation
experience on nursing students’ attitudes, knowledge, and communication skills. Surveys were administered to all participants on
week prior to the interprofessional simulation experience and again after the completion of the simulation experience and debriefing.
The surveys included Student Satisfaction and Self-Confidence in Learning (SS&SCL) and the Readiness for Interprofessional
Learning Scale (RIPLS). Paired T-tests were used to analyse survey results.
Findings: Results indicated that nursing students demonstrated significant differences when comparing pretests to post-tests in both
surveys. The SS & SCL indicated a significant increase in attitudes about the instruction student received following the simulation
activity. The RIPLS survey had significantly higher scores for the post-tests in areas concerning shared learning with other health care
students which increased student’s understanding of clinical problems andmade them thinkmore positively about other professionals.
Ultimately the students indicated that this IPE experience would benefit patients if health-care students worked together to solve
patient problems.
Conclusion: The use of collaborative IPE within nursing curricula will aide students in developing an understanding of the roles,
responsibilities, values/ethics, teamwork, and effective communication with should be continued to aid in understanding of other
professions. Nursing students’ perceptions of IPE significantly improved following participation in an interprofessional simulation
experience.
Biography
Lisa Green completed her MSN in 2008 from Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, WI and undergraduate BSN from Viterbo University in LaCrosse, WI in 2000.
She is the senior level leader and coordinates precepted clinical placements. Lisa teaches Pathophysiology, Professional Practice Preparation, and Medical-
Surgical clinical. She has an interest in nursing simulation research and interprofessional education.
Lisa R Green, J Nurs Care 2017, 6:2 (Suppl)