Educating the Educators: Scaffolded Simulations for Difficult Conversations in Clinical and Academic Settings
Healthcare education students must be equipped to handle challenging student interactions in both one-on-one and classroom settings. While strategies for classroom management are often taught didactically, opportunities to practice these skills in a safe, structured environment are limited during graduate training. This presentation will highlight the development and implementation of a scaffolded simulation program designed for Master of Science in Nursing Education (MNE) students to practice crucial conversations within a psychologically safe environment.
Through a progressive model over multiple courses, students build communication skills essential for addressing complex learner behaviors in academic and clinical settings. Students initially engage in simulated one-on-one meetings addressing common challenges with a standardized “learner.”
As the students progress through the courses, foundational skills are built upon utilizing higher-stakes scenarios, culminating in a classroom-based simulation. Feedback from students regarding the simulations has been overwhelmingly positive. Students value the opportunity to apply didactic content in realistic scenarios with real-time feedback from standardized learners. Lessons learned regarding logistics, role preparation, and program integration will also be shared, along with practical recommendations for implementing a similar program at other institutions.
Learning Objectives
- • Learners will describe the essential components of a scaffolded curriculum for practicing crucial conversations in healthcare education.
- • Learners will review specific simulation scenarios, implementation logistics, and lessons learned form the program.
- • Learners will develop preliminary learning objectives and simulation ideas for implementing a similar curriculum at their home institution.
Speaker
Kimberly Buholtz, EdD, RN, PED-BC, CNEcl, CHSE-A
Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing
Assistant Director of Simulation
University of Rochester School of Nursingr
- Faculty Develoment, Innovate use of Simulation, New Technologies
- 1 hours 1 minutes
Great ideas, would like to incorporate this for new hire faculty. Real-life experiences and practical application that I can put into practice with the next simulation
I loved the practicality of these simulations! Providing specific details on how they conducted simulations to address unprofessionalism with students.
Thank you for adding another tool to my simulation toolbox. It was great to hear how other institutions handle these types of situations.
I like seeing what other simulationists are doing in their programs. Great ideas! I appreciated Dr. Buholtz’s passion for implementing these kinds of sims for the MNE students. I like how she provided details for each of the simulations, yet still left it open to interpretation for our specific audiences.
Great way to help them gain experience and be more prepared!
Great information regarding challenging conversation scenarios! This was very helpful for our program and developing challenging conversation objectives in the future.
The specific examples and different scenarios described in detail that I have not previously considered are especially my takeaways
The speaker was easy to listen to and she clearly explained the simulations and the process. I plan to bring this to the professors who teach in the MSN Ed. track and see if they want to do something on a smaller scale. Real scenarios and great interventions to address behaviors. Thank you for the ideas!!