Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Geriatric Simulation: A Focus on Older Adults as Simulated Participants - Softcover

 
9783031657412: Comprehensive Healthcare Simulation: Geriatric Simulation: A Focus on Older Adults as Simulated Participants
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3031657411 ISBN 13: 9783031657412
Publisher: Springer, 2024

Synopsis

This practical guide brings together approaches designed for simulation-based education for the care of older adults. It fills a gap in the training for the care of older adults that working with Simulated Participants (SPs) can help to address. The book provides elements of best practice related to simulation methodology are synthesized with relevant clinical evidence related to caring for older adults.

 

This book will be an invaluable practical resource for educators, academics, and other health care providers with diverse levels  of experience who work in health professions education and simulation training related to care of older adults. It offers support (guidance) to all health professions globally and is particularly pertinent to interprofessional practice. Users will gain the essential ingredients  to confidently implement a safe and effective geriatric simulation program with older adult SPs.

 

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About the Author

Cathy M Smith, PhD

Baycrest

Toronto, Canada


Nemat Alsaba, MBBS

Bond University

Australia


Lisa Guttman Sokoloff, MS

Baycrest

Toronto, Canada


Debra Nestel, PhD

Monash University

Melbourne, Australia


From the Back Cover

This practical guide is focused on supporting those who work with older adult simulated participants (SPs). This book addresses a gap in professional development for anyone using simulation as an educational method. It draws on theoretical and experience-based practices in a range of settings. The book includes opportunities for expanded roles for older adult SPs beyond their typical work as ‘patients’.

This book will be an invaluable practical resource for educators, academics, and other healthcare providers with different levels of experience, who work in health professions’ education especially related to care of older adults. The book includes examples from medicine, nursing and allied health professions as well as interprofessional practices.

 

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Publisher
Springer
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3031657411
ISBN 13 
9783031657412
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
287
Editor
Smith Cathy M., Alsaba Nemat, Sokoloff Lisa Guttman, Nestel Debra