PurposePurpose

A protocol was developed to investigate the effectiveness of clinical skills learned by nursing students through simulation-based training as opposed to standard skill training commonly utilized by nursing programs. The hypothesis was that training supported by a reactive simulator provides a better analog to the real-world will produce a better training milieu and hence higher performance than training supported by the legacy static simulations that do not provide as close an analog to the real-world experiences.

A secondary hypothesis was that males will be more comfortable with, and more receptive to, training on a high-fidelity manikin, leading to higher performance. The primary independent variable was manikin fidelity.  A second independent variable was procedure.