The major objective of teaching in clinical setting, by tradition, is to progress medical or nursing students’ competence in clinical skills. Surgical simulators, for instance, are used to train resident surgeons to improve their performance and to reduce surgical errors in hospitals. The notable advance for simulate practice is for the trainee to be able to perform exercises on the simulation which is accurately mimics the real human body without jeopardy to patients.
As computer technology becomes more affordable, computer supporting equipments have also been applied to nursing teaching activities. Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), for example, has been introduced into nursing program in School of Health Science in New Zealand since 1998. According to Wilson, "the application is to be used by students of nursing in their final community clinical placement learning using the PDA… A desktop version of the software will be used on standalone PCs within a designated computer suite, so that students can use the database that resembles the real world of automated documentation to formulate care plans that contribute to their usual assessment points within clinical course..."(n.d.)
References:
Wilson, S. (n.d.). Development of a personal digital assistant (PAD) as point-of-care technology in nursing education. Retrieved October 2, 2009, from http://www.pdacortex.com/pda_nursing_education_htm
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