A Comparison of Simulation Strategies to Promote Patient Safety and Reduce Medical Error

The goal of this research was to determine how patient safety and the avoidance of medical error can be effectively taught to student nurses in a simulated setting. Three strategies were compared a high fidelity mannequin b standardized patientactor and c video platform virtual. Both the subjects and the research assistants were blinded to the Dependent Variable the commission of error. Subjects were randomized to each of the three experiments in a crossover design. In each of the four semesters of the study, one group served as a control and were randomized to a one-time experiment, each semester offered one of the three experiments as the control. During the last and fourth semester, all subjects were offered. Medical error was embedded in each of the three experiments.