The high fidelity human patient simulator is a high cost teaching tool. In addition to the cost of the unit itself, added costs include the costs of the software programs made for the unit and costs of training staff to program and maintain the unit. Harlow & Sportsman (2007) conducted a study of the costs and savings of human patient simulators which revealed that “there are substantial savings in instructional costs that should occur as a result of the use of patient simulators, but that the savings are not sufficient to offset the investment costs." In the immediate future, the circumstance of total costs in excess of savings provided by the technology may keep nursing education from investing in the technology. However, in the current context of a nursing faculty and nurse preceptor shortage, educational institutions may choose to take on the additional costs if the tool is effective in alleviating staffing strains. In the context of “shorter length of patient stay, higher patient acuity, [and] nursing staff shortages,” there may not be nursing clinical supervisors and preceptors available for students to learn to the same extent by caring for real patients (Medley & Horne, 2005).
References:
Harlow, K.C., & Sportsman, S. (2007). An economic analysis of patient simulators for clinical training in nursing education. Nursing Economics 25(1), 24-29.
Medley, C. F. & Horne, C. (2005). Using simulation technology for undergraduate nursing education. Journal of Nursing Education 44(1), 31-35.
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