F.A. Davis Company

Promote quality patient care. Build confidence. Ensure safe practice.
Help your students develop and practice the critical assessment, clinical reasoning, and nursing care skills they need to deliver safe and effective patient care in a controlled, risk-free environment.

51 structured simulation scenarios—34 in print and 17 on DavisPlus, the F.A. Davis password-protected site—cover the entire nursing curriculum. Each simulation scenario 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.

Simulations are presented staged over time, with expected right and wrong student actions and your best responses and guidance. Guidelines for reflection are included for each scenario.

Perfect to use with your computerized patient simulators in the lab or with live actors in class!

The Instructor’s Volume provides all of the information found in the Learner Volume, as well as the answers to the student exercises and everything you need to set up, administer, facilitate, and run clinical simulations!

Receive the Instructor Volume for FREE when you adopt 20 or more copies of the Learner Volume!

Contact your F.A. Davis Educational Sales Representative for details 1-800-235-7538.

• Meets the needs of students with 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, a response, and an action.
• Addresses every level of health care—primary, acute, long-term, and palliative care.
• Represents the spectrum of clinical nursing practice domains, patient age levels, and cultural backgrounds.
• Incorporates assessment skills necessary to evaluate critical body systems as appropriate to the patient’s condition.
• Aids in the mastery of the skills and procedures needed to…
• Meet multiple objectives.
• Clearly describe signs and symptoms.
• Determine environmental safety hazards.
• Communicate effectively with patients and team members.
• Document assessment findings accurately and succinctly.
• Identify appropriate nursing interventions.

Organizes scenarios from simple to complex in a consistent format that includes...

• Level
• Roles
• Learning outcomes
  • Cognitive
  • Communication
  • Psychomotor
  • Safety
  • Affective
  • Leadership and Management
• Overview of the problem
  • Definition
  • Pathophysiology
  • Risk factors
  • Assessment
  • Diagnostic tests
  • Treatment
  • Nursing management
  • Evaluation/outcome criteria
  • Review questions
  • Related evidence-based practice guidelines
  • Topics to review prior to the simulation
• Simulation
  • Prerequisites
  • Setting
  • Environment and simulator
  • Equipment
  • Medications/IV therapy
  • Client background
  • Admission Sheet (form)
  • Provider’s Orders (form)
  • Nursing Report
• Student Simulation Prep Assignments
  • Identify items and their purpose in the care of a patient with [condition]
  • Identify team members and specific roles in the care of a patient with [condition]
  • Relevant data exercise
  • Initial focused assessment
  • Diagnostic tests
  • Treatment
  • Nursing problems/Diagnoses
• Simulator Settings
  • Facilitator cues/Time progression
  • Role
  • Assessment/Student actions correct
  • Patient event/Response; Patient assessment data
  • Assessment/Student actions incorrect
  • Patient response
  • Comments
  • Clinical pause
  • Additional scenes and clinical pauses as required
  • Debriefing/Guided reflection
• References
• Standard forms templates

• Assessment
  • Respiratory Assessment (Beginner)
  • Cardiac Assessment (Beginner)
  • Abdominal Assessment/Appendicitis (Beginner)
  • Head-to-Toe Assessment (Beginner)
• Fundamental Skills
  • Patient Safety/What’s Wrong with This Picture? (Beginner)
  • Admission and Care of a Client with Unstable Angina: Basic Assessment/Decision Making (Beginner)
  • Care of the Patient with a Colostomy (Beginner)
  • Postoperative Assessment Following Laparoscopic Choloecystectomy (Beginner)
  • Abdominal Pain (Beginner)
  • Aspiration Pneumonia (Beginner)
  • Perioperative Care (Beginner to Intermediate)
• Maternal/Newborn Nursing
  • Postpartum Hemorrhage (Intermediate to Advanced)
  • Immediate Newborn Assessment (Advanced)
  • Dystocia (Intermediate)
  • Thermoregulation and Hypoglycemia (Intermediate)
  • Postoperative Cesarean Section (Intermediate to Advanced)
  • Precipitous Delivery (Intermediate to Advanced)
• Pediatric Nursing
  • Pediatric Asthma (Intermediate)
  • Head Injury (Intermediate)
  • Fracture/Suspected Child Abuse (Intermediate)
  • Meningitis (Intermediate to Advanced)
  • Spleen Injury (Intermediate)
• Adult Health Nursing
  • Intestinal Obstruction (Beginner to Intermediate)
  • Postoperative Hip (Intermediate)
  • Pulseless Electrical Activity (Intermediate)
  • Uncontrolled Atrial Fibrillation (Advanced)
  • Cardiopulmonary Arrest (Advanced)
  • Cardiac Arrhythmia Rapid Response (Advanced)
  • CHF/COPD (Intermediate)
  • Complications of Cardiac Catheterization (Advanced)
  • Atypical Chest Pain (Intermediate to Advanced)
  • Subdural Hematoma/Alcohol Withdrawl (Intermediate to Advanced)
  • Spinal Cord Injury (Intermediate)
• Geriatric Nursing
  • Elder Abuse/Thoracic Trauma (Advanced)
  • Syncopal Attack (Intermediate)
  • Dementia vs. Delirium (Intermediate)
• Trauma/Emergency Nursing
  • Placental Abruption (Advanced)
  • Gunshot Wound (Advanced)
  • Stroke (Advanced)
  • Adult Asthma (Intermediate)
• Critical Care Nursing
  • Shock (Advanced)
  • Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) (Advanced)
  • Hyperglycemic Hyperosmolar Nonketosis (HHNK) (Advanced)
  • Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) (Advanced)
• Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
  • Narcotic Overdose/Bipolar Disorder (Intermediate)
  • Paranoid Schizophrenia (Intermediate)
  • Lithium Overdose (Intermediate to Advanced)
• Community Health Nursing
  • Wound Care in Home Setting (Intermediate)
  • Unresponsive Patient at Home (Intermediate to Advanced)
  • Assessment of School-Aged Children (Advanced)    
  • Intractable Pain (Intermediate)