Simulation Technologies in Nursing Education

Simulation technologies refer those tools and strategies that, in an educational setting, enable students to learn processes and actions through experience. In the context of nursing education, the human patient simulator is the most utilized simulation technology, and innovations in simulation technology for nursing have been focused on further development of this human patient simulator. There is need to develop other types of simulation technologies, which would further nursing education, such as less-costly screen-based simulations. The use of the human patient simulator, though expensive, offers substantial benefits to the student and to the nursing education system in its current struggle with the shortage of faculty and preceptors.