Mock Nursing Simulations

Imagine, you are a nurse in the middle of your shift when all of the sudden the alarm system sounds and over the intercom you hear “Doctor Quick Response Team Cardiac Unit”. You begin to feel flush, your heart is pounding and you become nervous, the questions start racing through your head “am I ready to respond, what am I going to do?” This reaction is completely normal, in fact in today’s health care setting the needs of health management services are increasing and more and more health care professionals are feeling the stress especially during medical emergencies. Therefore, it is important for hospitals and health care settings to have a policy in place to hold mock clinical simulations, for in times of emergency to allow for health care provider to practice and prepare to respond to medical emergencies in a rapid and organized fashion.

As a nurse for the hospital a little over a year now, I feel this policy should be more than yearly. There should be classes each month that nurses and other health care professionals can sign up for when they feel they need to better their skills and or want the practice. The policy we currently have is due to the fact that each emergency code is different, every health care professional attending the emergency situation all hold different forms of nerves no matter how long they have been in the health care profession. Having a clinical policy that allows for mock clinical experiences to be practiced helps “the knowledge base of nursing to grown exponentially” (Curl, Smith, Chisholm, McGee, Das, (2016)), and as well “improve performance as well as increase confidence” (Herber & Heaser, (2016)) in health care