Educator Reflections: Interdisciplinary Learning and Collaboration with Technology

The Joint commission, through the National Patient Safety Goals recommends team training and collaboration to help develop team communication skills and improve patient safety (Dillon, Noble, & Kaplan, 2009). Nurses are part of an interdisciplinary team responsible for safe patient care. It is critical that all members of the team work together collaboratively to provide safe and seamless quality care. Use of high-fidelity simulation is an effective teaching tool to develop interpersonal and critical thinking skills that urge students to apply knowledge to a clinical practice scenarios, apply learned skills and make clinical decision in a safe environment without harm to patients (Dillon et al., 2009 ; Griffin-Sobel et al., 2010). Use of simulation technology in a mock code with nursing and medical students for example according to Dillon et al., (2009) provides opportunities for team work, collaboration, and communication. Intrapersonal team education through simulation creates feelings of support from peers, ease and confidence of delegation, and assists individuals to adapt to the environment and brings feelings of professional solidarity (Leonard, Shuhaibar, & Chen, 2010).

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