Infant Simulator Training to Measure Pediatric Vital Signs

Infant Simulator Training to Measure Pediatric Vital Signs

Providing training to nursing students in the field of pediatric care requires having the competencies to care for the pediatric population. However, as the margin of error in pediatric care is quite narrow, nursing students need to undertake a comprehensive laboratory practice before implementing their care skills unsupervised in the pediatric ward. Nursing students can develop their professional skills by gaining the necessary confidence and skills with simulation methods.

Simulation makes possible for students to feel a pulse, observe chest movements, hear respiration sounds, measure blood pressure, and evaluate results, thus allowing students to practice with concrete examples of various conditions. Hence simulation-based training, one of the important learning techniques, is assumed to help nursing students overcome the difficulties they will experience in measuring the children's vital signs

Inclusion Criteria:

• Having taken the Pediatric Nursing course
• Voluntarily participating in the study

Criteria for exclusion from the study were as follows:

• Failure to complete the research process
• Filling out the necessary forms incompletely