How Can we Use Simulation to Improve Competencies in Nursing?

Iben Akselbo is an Associate Professor, pediatric nurse and programme leader for master and postgraduate education in anesthesia, pediatric, intensive care and operating room nursing at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. Her teaching and research areas are pediatric nursing and simulation as a learning method in nursing education. She is an Operations Specialist and Simulation Facilitator at unit for healthcare simulation at NTNU and an instructor for Simulation Facilitator-courses. Ingvild Aune is a Professor in midwifery and programme leader for master in midwifery at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway. Her research areas are the antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal period and simulation as a learning method in nursing education. Aune teaches in research methods, as well as various topics within the normal pregnancy, birth and childbirth. She is a Simulation Facilitatorat unit for healthcare simulation at NTNU.

• Chapter 1. Simulation: A historical and pedagogical perspective.- Chapter 2. How to use simulation as a learning method in bachelor and postgraduate/master education of nurses and teachers in healthcare.- Chapter 3.Facilitating learning activities in further education and master’s program in oncology nursing.- Chapter 4. Simulating preoperative preparations with focus on non-technical skills in an OR nursing education program in Norway.- Chapter 5.Training Interprofessional Teamwork in Palliative Care: A Pilot study of Online Simulation Activity for Registered Nurses and Nursing Associates.- Chapter 6.The use of Critical Response Process as a debriefing structure in simulation activity in nursing education.- Chapter 7.Learning without a teacher: perceptions of peer-to-peer learning activities in simulation training.- Chapter 8.Train the trainer course - How can the skills of a facilitator benefit academic staff in nursing and other health education programmes.- Chapter 9. Playful learning with VR- SIMI model- the use of 360-degree video as a learning tool for nursing students in a psychiatric simulation setting.- Chapter 10. Virtual Reality (VR) in anatomy teaching and learning in higher healthcare education.