Simulation and Innovation: Surgical Intensive Care Unit Critical Escape

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Educating the multigenerational nursing workforce is a challenge requiring new and innovative techniques. With that in mind, we present an escape room skills lab for an ICU using high-fidelity simulation. Nurses are challenged with clues and puzzles while caring for a critically ill patient in a race to escape the room. We discuss the evidence behind gaming in education, what we understand about creating an escape room and the challenges of creating this exercise.

Objectives

Describe the benefits of gamification in nursing education.
Explain how patient simulation can be a useful tool when incorporating game play into learning.
Develop an outline for a high-fidelity escape room educational experience.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Criteria for Awarding Contact Hours

Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.

Accreditation

American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for {contactHours} contact hours.

Disclosures

The Nurse Planner has determined that no individuals with the ability to control content of this activity have relevant relationships with ineligible companies.

Activities with pharmacotherapeutic credit are to assist the APRN in fulfilling their education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.

Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.