A Practical Guide for Nurse Practitioner Faculty Using Simulation in Competency-Based Education

Awarded 2nd place in the 2024 AJN Book of the Year Awards in the Advanced Practice Nursing Category. 

Authored by expert simulation researchers, educators, nurse practitioner faculty, and clinicians, A Practical Guide for Nurse Practitioner Faculty Using Simulation in Competency-Based Education looks at topics related to simulation design, development, and implementation for nurse practitioner and other graduate-level nursing programs.  
 
The new educational requirements based on the AACN Essentials and move to competency-based outcomes require nursing graduates to provide documented skill competencies to care for all types of patients in all types of diverse healthcare settings. Whether a graduate is working in acute care, primary care, or within the community, clinical simulations serve as a vital approach to creating student-centered, experiential learning that engages and prepares the graduate for real-world practice. 
 
Once the exception, clinical simulations are becoming more commonplace in nurse practitioner programs. This book supports nurse practitioner faculty as they learn new pedagogy and teaching strategies using clinical simulations.  It focuses on developing and preparing nurse educators and superusers of simulations as they create, implement, and evaluate this pedagogy in nurse practitioner education.  
 
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 State of the Science of Clinical Simulations in NP Education
CHAPTER 2 Theoretical Frameworks for Simulation Design, Development, and Implementation
CHAPTER 3 Competency-Based Nursing Education
CHAPTER 4 Student-Centered Learning in NP Education
CHAPTER 5 Integration of Simulation in the NP Curriculum
CHAPTER 6 Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice™ and Nurse Practitioner Education
CHAPTER 7 Attainment of Competency Through Simulation: The ACTS Model
CHAPTER 8 Simulation Operations
CHAPTER 9 Methods and Models for Debriefing in Graduate Clinical Education
CHAPTER 10 Working with Standardized and Simulated Patients
CHAPTER 11 Assessment and Evaluations in Simulation
CHAPTER 12 Simulation to Prepare Nurse Practitioner Students for Role Transition
CHAPTER 13 The Future of Graduate Nurse Practitioner Education: A Case for Simulation