Evaluating the Use of Standardized Patients in Undergraduate Psychiatric Nursing Experiences

Utilization of Standardized Patients to Decrease Nursing Student Anxiety

“…The results of this study suggest that providing an experience with SPs decreases students' level of anxiety as measured by the VAS and is consistent with the findings from other recent simulation studies (Szpak & Kameg, 2013;Kameg, et al, 2010Robinson-Smith et al, 2009. As reported by Dearmon et al (2013), high levels of anxiety can negatively impact student performance leading to the inability to perform and ultimately jeopardizing patient safety.…”

“…Another method of simulation that is being utilized by nurse educators is the use of SPs. SPs are individuals trained to consistently portray a patient or other individual in a scripted scenario for the purposes of instruction, practice, or evaluation (Robinson-Smith, Bradley, & Meakim, 2009). Utilization of SPs is useful because students and health care providers have an opportunity to improve their decision making, problem solving, and communication skills in a safe nonthreatening environment.…”

Evaluating the Use of Standardized Patients in Teaching Spiritual Care at the End of Life

“…Previous studies have supported the use of SPs to provide a realistic and safe place to practice in unpredictable settings with diverse psychosocial issues (Ndiwane et al, 2013;Robinson-Smith et al, 2009;Sideras, et al, 2013).…”

Increasing the health literacy of learning disability and mental health nurses in physical care skills: A pre and post-test evaluation of a workshop on diabetes care

“…Qualitative content analysis in the main concurred with this, and in particular the use of a real narrative of a service user's story. DVDs have been utilized successfully in nurse education (Robinson-Smith, 2009;Williams et al, 2009). Lamont and Brunero (2012) highlighted how DVDs can be authentic and can facilitate participation and clinical reasoning on the topic at hand, with the added bonus of being able to control learning allied to the content being presented: all standards that needed to be attained when considering the DVD use.…”