Nursing Simulation Analysis

Through creating a script and performing this simulation, we learned, first and foremost, how realistic aggression and violence can be in healthcare settings. It is often difficult to envision these types of situations when we are verbally introduced to them in nursing school because we very rarely get to see them in practice. By discussing our thoughts and performing the simulation, we retained a better understanding of how we might react and apply the skills that we have learned. Typically in our clinical experience, we are not given patients that are aggressive or violent, as many preceptors avoid pairing nursing students with potentially difficult patients. This simulation displayed a real-life scenario of an aggressively acting patient …show more content…
As nurses, we always want what is best for our patient, but we must understand that our safety is extremely important as well. Upon entering a patient’s room, awareness of the surroundings is imperative, as is having a plan if danger arises. Nurses tend to want to be problem solvers and would rather not rely on their co-workers because typically they are always busy, but it’s important to understand that when an unsafe situation transpires the nurse needs to think about the safety of the patient secondary to their own safety. Removal from the dangerous setting and seeking additional assistance is always more important than believing a situation can be handled by one nurse alone. This was one thing our group agreed is easy to forget as a nurse. Especially as young nurses, we want to feel competent and not reliant on others, but through this lesson and simulation have learned we do need to have a greater awareness of our environments and ask for help if necessary.

Describe how you will use the knowledge you gained from this activity in your nursing …show more content…
Although the content presented in lecture is helpful, much of the material is difficult to grasp until we are able to apply it to real-life situations. This simulation gave us a chance to put the nursing skills we have learned in class into practice, so that we can understand the strategies that work best for each of us personally and how conflicts will strike us in different ways based on our personal experiences and instinctual responses. Not everyone has the same comfort level when working with challenging individuals. Because our nursing backgrounds vary, we realized that there were some members within our group that have had no experience with aggressive patient care, where others well versed in handling difficult situations. However, this experience gave us the opportunity to learn how to act and react as nurse in this kind of situation. In fact, aggression and violence are things that most people, tend to want to avoid; it’s natural people want to avoid conflict. By completing this assignment as a group and working as a team, we were able to see different opinions and thoughts of how people may react to certain events. Each member of our group had a unique perspective of what may occur, how a patient may react, and what may set someone