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Learning High-Energy Trauma Care Through Simulation

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Highlights

  • Simulation increases skills in a prehospital emergency setting.

  • Prehospital emergency knowledge can be corrected and confirmed.

  • Observation and debriefing is as important for learning as the hands-on practice.

Abstract

Simulation provides the opportunity to learn how to care for patients in complex situations, such as when patients are exposed to high-energy trauma such as motor vehicle accidents. The aim of the study was to describe nurses' perceptions of high-energy trauma care through simulation in prehospital emergency care. The study had a qualitative design. Interviews were conducted with 20 nurses after performing a simulated training series. Data were analyzed using a phenomenographic method. The result indicates that simulation establishes, corrects, and confirms knowledge and skills related to trauma care in prehosp ital emergency settings. Trauma knowledge is readily available in memory and can be quickly retrieved in a future trauma situation.

Keywords

simulation
learning
experience
phenomenography
method
ambulance
prehospital emergency care
trauma

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Conflict of interest: None to report.

This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.

Authors' contributions: The first author facilitated the simulations, performed the interviews, analyzed the data, and wrote the article. The other authors supervised the analysis and writing. All authors read and approved the final article.