Promote quality patient care. Build confidence. Ensure safe practice.

51 structured case studies simulate the wide range of patient care challenges your students will encounter in practice. These scenarios help them develop the critical assessment, clinical reasoning, and nursing skills they need to deliver safe and competent care—in a controlled, risk-free environment.

Each realistic, patient-care simulation focuses on a defined clinical domain, critical knowledge and skills, levels of competency, evidenced-based practice guidelines, National Patient Safety Goals, and research-based design characteristics. They record their reflections at the end of each simulation to enhance self-awareness and develop insights into the patient care delivery process.

The Facilitator Volume provides all of the information found in the Participant Volume, the answers to the student exercises and two additional testing simulations, as well as everything you need to set up, administer and facilitate each simulation.

Receive the Facilitator Volume FREE when you adopt 20 or more copies of the Participant Volume.

Assessment

• Respiratory Assessment (Beginner)
• Cardiac Assessment (Beginner)
• Abdominal Assessment/Appendicitis (Beginner)
• Head-to-Toe Assessment (Beginner)

Fundamental Skills

• Patient Safety/What’s Wrong with This Picture? (Beginner)
• Admission and Care of a Client with Unstable Angina: Basic Assessment/Decision Making (Beginner)
• Care of the Patient with a Colostomy (Beginner)
• Postoperative Assessment Following Laparoscopic Choloecystectomy (Beginner)
• Abdominal Pain (Beginner)
• Aspiration Pneumonia (Beginner)
• Perioperative Care (Beginner to Intermediate)

Maternal/Newborn Nursing

• Postpartum Hemorrhage (Intermediate to Advanced)
• Immediate Newborn Assessment (Advanced)
• Dystocia (Intermediate)
• Thermoregulation and Hypoglycemia (Intermediate)
• Postoperative Cesarean Section (Intermediate to Advanced)
• Precipitous Delivery (Intermediate to Advanced)

Pediatric Nursing

• Pediatric Asthma (Intermediate)
• Head Injury (Intermediate)
• Fracture/Suspected Child Abuse (Intermediate)
• Meningitis (Intermediate to Advanced)
• Spleen Injury (Intermediate)

Adult Health Nursing

• Intestinal Obstruction (Beginner to Intermediate)
• Postoperative Hip (Intermediate)
• Pulseless Electrical Activity (Intermediate)
• Uncontrolled Atrial Fibrillation (Advanced)
• Cardiopulmonary Arrest (Advanced)
• Cardiac Arrhythmia Rapid Response (Advanced)
• CHF/COPD (Intermediate)
• Complications of Cardiac Catheterization (Advanced)
• Atypical Chest Pain (Intermediate to Advanced)
• Subdural Hematoma/Alcohol Withdrawal (Intermediate to Advanced)
• Spinal Cord Injury (Intermediate)

Geriatric Nursing

• Elder Abuse/Thoracic Trauma (Advanced)
• Syncopal Attack (Intermediate)
• Dementia vs. Delirium (Intermediate)

Trauma/Emergency Nursing

• Placental Abruption (Advanced)
• Gunshot Wound (Advanced)
• Stroke (Advanced)
• Adult Asthma (Intermediate)

Critical Care Nursing

• Shock (Advanced)
• Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) (Advanced)
• Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemic State (HHS) (Advanced)
• Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) (Advanced)

Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing

• Narcotic Overdose/Bipolar Disorder (Intermediate)
• Paranoid Schizophrenia (Intermediate)
• Lithium Overdose with Renal Failure (Intermediate to Advanced)

Community Health Nursing

• Wound Care in Home Setting (Intermediate)
• Unresponsive Patient at Home (Intermediate to Advanced)
• Assessment of School-Aged Children (Advanced)    
• Intractable Pain (Intermediate)

Testing

• Postoperative Complications: Pulmonary Embolism in thePostoperative Total Hip Replacement Patient
• Blood Transfusion Reaction

Appendix

• Admission Sheet
• Braden Scale
• Codesheet
• Consent for Transfusion of Blood
• Debriefng/Guided Reflection
• Discharge Instructions
• Evaluation
• Glasgow Coma Scale
• Growth Charts
• Intake and Output
• Interdisciplinary Progress Notes
• Labor Assessment
• Neurovascular Assessment
• Medication Administration Record (MAR)
• NIH Stroke Scale
• Pain Assessment
• Postpartum Close Observation Record
• Preoperative Check List
• Procedural Consent
• Provider’s Orders
• RASS and Cam-ICU Worksheet
• Self-Evaluation
• Standardized Flow Sheet
• Vital Sign Record