Your trusted virtual simulation program, upgraded to better prepare today’s students for the Next Generation NCLEX® (NGN) and the requirements of clinical practice

Give your students the most realistic and up-to-date clinical experiences available with expert-authored simulations. Co-developed by Laerdal Medical and Wolters Kluwer, vSim® for Nursing provides real-world, evidence-based scenarios written by the National League for Nursing. With built-in point-of-care solutions for reference and remediation and scenarios that include NGN-style questions, you can help students strengthen their clinical judgment skills while building test-taking confidence.

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A screenshot of Clinical Judgment in Action for vSim for Nursing illustrating a quiz designed to help students develop clinical decision-making skills.

Introducing Clinical Judgment in Action for vSim® for Nursing

As an educator, you are tasked with the crucial role of equipping nursing students with strong clinical decision-making skills to prevent errors in their early careers, all while managing historically high faculty workloads. vSim® for Nursing aids educators by providing students with frequent opportunities to hone their clinical judgment skills and obtain personalized feedback. A collaboration among Wolters Kluwer, Laerdal Medical, and the National League for Nursing underscores the importance of asking pertinent questions timely. "Clinical Judgment in Action" immerses students in reflective learning, prompting them with critical questions at crucial moments, thereby sharpening their ability to think critically and make informed decisions in patient care scenarios.

Key benefits of Clinical Judgment in Action:

  • Enhanced clinical judgment: Develops critical thinking skills by posing questions aligned with the National Council's Clinical Judgment Model, promoting cognitive muscle memory for high-pressure patient care situations
  • Immediate feedback for student-centered learning: Promotes retention and a reflective learning culture through in-the-moment feedback, preparing students for real-life practice

Increased medical fidelity

Using next generation vSim for Nursing, students will engage with enhanced 3D patients. Just like in real clinical practice, students learn to recognize cues effectively and react to unfolding visual and audio responses from the patient such as pain, paleness, urticaria, and more. As part of the virtual experience, students will see an immediate, lifelike, and accurate effect from providing patient-centered care, helping them improve their clinical reasoning skills based on decisions they make.

Comprehensive patient scenarios allow students to experience the same patient interactions and complexities in care they will find in real clinical settings, all updated for current medical practice, including normal and abnormal images, to develop the clinical judgment students need to prepare them for actual practice.

NGN-style scenarios and questions

vSim for Nursing is designed to support the NCBSN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model. In each post-scenario quiz, students must answer six questions similar to what they will see on the NGN, including cloze and extended multiple response items.

And since vSim for Nursing seamlessly integrates with the entire Lippincott® nursing education suite, students can reference evidence-based source material to reinforce or remediate their knowledge.

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Improved communication

Our new SBAR (Situation Background Assessment Recommendation) tool empowers students to practice communicating effectively. Students will learn about receiving and giving an SBAR during a patient handover, teaching them to communicate effectively with their colleagues and improving the quality of their patient handovers.

SBAR handover concluding patient scenario

  • A select-all-that-apply multiple-choice assessment engages students in exchanges to decide which information to include.
  • Detailed focus on effective communication
  • Increased critical thinking and clinical judgment through information inclusion decisions
  • Students receive detailed feedback on their SBAR report.
  • Instructors receive instant performance assessments.

SBAR handover preceding patient scenario

  • Students get handover of the patient case with a realistic spoken report.
  • More voice variations and fewer pauses help students practice active listening skills.
  • Students exercise judgment, prioritizing what factors to weigh in treating patients.
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Enhanced clinical judgment

Since the beginning, vSim for Nursing has been an environment to practice clinical judgment. Patient scenarios require students to identify cues and interpret information, as well as to determine, prioritize, and take appropriate nursing actions before reevaluating as needed. These steps allow students to build their confidence and competence in a safe, realistic environment.

The next generation of vSim for Nursing has new features and upgrades that give students an even more realistic experience, taking developing clinical judgment to the next level. With increased realism and fidelity, students can recognize unfolding visual and audio cues from patients and will have to react to these cues accordingly. Updates to the EHR require students to use their clinical judgment skills to explore and retrieve relevant information.

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