Taming a wicked problem through virtual pre-simulation gaming
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Sadd, Roseanne
Hills, Jacinda
Hills, Jacinda
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2023
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Journal Article
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Simulation-based learning
Complex problems
Nursing students
Safety to practice
Complex problems
Nursing students
Safety to practice
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Sadd, R., & Hills, J. (2023). Taming a wicked problem through virtual pre-simulation gaming. Scope (Learning & Teaching), 12, 17-25. https://doi.org/10.34074/scop.4012006
Abstract
Wicked problems are those problems that are not clearly defined or able to be stated, but which are inherent in solving the problem – issues in which changes may be made and aspects of the problem solved therefore resulting in a more acceptable outcome (Rittel & Webber, 1973). In nursing education, wicked problems arise from challenges in providing quality undergraduate nursing education in an ever-changing educational landscape affected by attrition, conflicting student commitments, and global pandemics. As a nursing educator, this means balancing the essential elements required for safe and competent practice within the confines of academic timing and process. Part of the role of nursing education is to ensure students are safe to practise at their educational (and experience) level. For second-year nursing students within a Bachelor of Nursing program, being able to respond, assess, and intervene appropriately are considered essential ‘safety to practise’ elements before entering an inpatient clinical placement. The challenge for a teaching team in a year two Bachelor of Nursing Inpatient and Ambulatory Care clinical course that has limited allocated theory hours was to provide learning opportunities and resources students are able to understand, and to use frameworks needed to develop their clinical practice to practise safely in the ‘real’ clinical environment.
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Otago Polytechnic
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https://doi.org/10.34074/scop.4012006
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