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- Title
USING VIRTUAL-PATIENT SIMULATION TO IMPROVE SPEAKING UP.
- Authors
Witschen, Brian; Stefura, Jennifer
- Abstract
Challenging authority through speaking up to ensure patient safety is a difficult yet essential aspect of interpersonal communication and patient care. Existing interventions for speaking up are inconsistent though prior experience appears to be important for speaking up in the future. To provide experience and improve speaking up behaviour in respiratory therapy students an intervention was developed that integrates a Gamified Virtual Simulation (GVS) with curriculum on patient advocacy and a high-intensity in-person simulation. Both the rate of speaking up and the proper use of CUS (Concerned, Uncomfortable, Safety Incident) were improved in students who completed the virtual simulation when compared with those in the control group. Students better understood how to speak up, escalate a challenge and appeared more confident. This presentation will summarize the published research and describe new results from the ongoing research collaboration further investigating this intervention between the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) and Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) respiratory therapy programs. It will also describe how a virtual patient simulation can be developed and integrated into an RT program or hospital-based education program.
- Subjects
CANADA; VIRTUAL reality; SIMULATED patients; HEALTH occupations students; CONFERENCES &; conventions; HUMAN services programs; COMMUNICATION; RESPIRATORY therapy; GAMIFICATION; PATIENT care; PATIENT safety
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Respiratory Therapy, 2023, Vol 59, p131
- ISSN
1205-9838
- Publication type
Article