Effects of Simulator Usage on The Development of The Skills Students

Nursing education is a training that requires many cognitive and psychomotor skills to be given to the students. Especially, it is expected that students should do every application skillfully before going out to hospital practice. For this reason, it is very important that students are prepared in a planned manner and enriched with visual elements so that they can obtain desired results from classroom lectures and laboratory applications. Simulation is defined as the imitation of actual tasks, relations, phenomena, equipment, behaviors, or some cognitive activities. There are many advantages to using the simulation in nursing education. These; The climatic environment can be animated in real life; Critical thinking, clinical decision-making and problem-solving skills; A specific situation / skill in simulated education and a case example case can be revitalized versatile. Thus, it is possible to provide students with active learning opportunities to create coherent and comparable experiences; Help students integrate knowledge and skills. It has been observed that the students who have been given training in simulations use their theoretical knowledge more frequently and that this training is very effective for the development of patient safety, cooperation and clinical skills. As a result; Simulation training has an effect on improving nurses' skills. It is suggested that training of models close to realistic is recommended by establishing simulation laboratories where the skills required in nursing education are taught. Through simulation laboratories, students develop their practice and as a result, mistakes they may make can be reduced