3041: Auditory Hallucination Simulation Experience: Impact on Students’ Assessment Skills and Capacity to Empathize with Psychotic Patients
This educational seminar provides an overview of the development, implementation and evaluation of an innovative auditory hallucination simulation experience for undergraduate nursing students. Impact on assessment skills and capacity to empathize with patients experiencing psychosis is discussed. Key points for effective simulation and debriefing are included along with responses by students regarding their experience.
*Note: This session contains an auditory simulation that may be offensive or upsetting to some individuals but is deemed appropriate by the author for this session.
Speakers: Nancy Bowllan, EdD, CNS, RN; Mary Timm, MS,Ed, BSN
Disclosures: This presenter has no conflicts of interest or commercial support to disclose. Off-label uses will not be discussed during this presentation. The activity planners have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Session Length: 30 minutes
Target Audience: RN, APRN
Session Objectives
Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:
1. Describe a minimum of 3 positive learning outcomes associated with the use of mental health simulation for nursing students and/or novice psychiatric nurses.
2. Describe how an auditory simulation lab can significantly improve nursing student’s or novice psychiatric nurse’s capacity to empathize with psychotic patients.
3. Define strategies to engage students and/or novice psychiatric nurses in an effective debriefing process following a simulation experience.
Continuing Nursing Education
0.5 contact hours. * In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to the entire session, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post test. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. We cannot award credit unless all steps are completed.
The American Psychiatric Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Originally Presented
Friday, November 9th
Undergraduate Education Track
APNA 26th Annual Conference
David L. Lawrence Convention Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Release Date: February 4, 2013
The contact hours for this session expire: February 28, 2014