Gasper: Clinical Simulations for Nursing Education






Build clinical confidence!Help your students develop the critical assessment, clinical reasoning, and nursing care skills they need to deliver and practice safe and effective patient care. 51 structured simulation scenarios, designed to be used in conjunction with the Instructor Volume, let them apply the nursing process 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.Students can record their reflections at the end of each simulation to enhance self-awareness and develop insights into the patient care delivery process.


Key Features
  • Designed to complement the free-upon-adoption Instructor Volume.
  • Meets the needs of diverse learning styles.
  • Facilitates the progression from theory to application in a controlled environment.
  • Bases scenarios on real-life, patient care situations with decision points prompting an assessment, response, and action.
  • Organizes scenarios from simple to complex in a consistent format.
  • Provides seven exercises to be completed prior to each simulation:
    • Identify items and their purpose
    • Identify team members and specific roles
    • Relevant data exercise
    • Initial focused assessment
    • Diagnostic tests
    • Treatment
    • Nursing Problems/diagnoses


Table of Contents
  • Assessment
  • Fundamentals skills
  • Maternal/Newborn
  • Pediatric
  • Adult Health Problems
  • Geriatric
  • Trauma/Emergency
  • Critical Care
  • Psych/Mental Health
  • Community
  • Appendix: Standard Forms Templates


Product Details 

  • Spiral-bound: 493 pages
  • Publisher: F.A. Davis Company; 1 edition (2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0803621809
  • ISBN-13: 978-0803621800

List Price: $49.95 
 
 

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