SIRC - National League for Nursing

Teaching and Learning Strategies offers many creative ideas for both novice and experienced educators who want to maximize the use of their simulation resources. The course provides valuable resources such as a moulage recipe book. It also suggests practical ideas for managing assignments that include animated rotation schedules that illustrate moving students through a simulation day and an interactive exercise focused on assigning student roles.

1. Discuss simulation teaching/learning strategies.
2. Explore techniques for introducing simulation in class, clinical and laboratory settings.
3. Describe the issues and concepts confronted when facilitating simulation in a teaching-learning environment.
4. Discuss common challenges the educator may encounter when using simulations as a teaching-learning strategy.

Deborah Henderson, PhD, RN is a full professor in the School of Nursing at Ohio University on the Zanesville Campus. Dr. Henderson has researched the use of debriefing methods in clinical simulation. She is active in researching and writing on technology use in nursing education and teaching and learning strategies.