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

ABSTRACT: 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.

Outcomes of TeamSTEPPS Training in Prelicensure Health Care Practitioner Programs: An Integrative Review.

BACKGROUND: Patient safety, morbidity, and mortality are directly correlated with interprofessional collaboration among health care practitioners. TeamSTEPPS offers a standardized curriculum for interprofessional teamwork training that can be incorporated into prelicensure education. This article describes the current state of the science related to the quantitative literature exploring the outcomes of TeamSTEPPS training in prelicensure health care practitioner students' education. METHOD: The Whittemore's and Knafl's method guided this integrative review. The CINAHL and PubMed databases were queried and ancestral searches of the reference lists of all retrieved articles were conducted. RESULTS: Nine quantitative research studies were identified for inclusion in this integrative review. CONCLUSION: The available literature suggests that using TeamSTEPPS within prelicensure education supports the development of teamwork knowledge and attitudes in interdisciplinary health care practitioner students. Most of the reviewed studies focused on nursing and medical students; thus, further research is needed on allied health care practitioner students. [J Nurs Educ. 2020;59(11):610-616.].