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Title: Wearable Simulated Maternity Model: Making Simulation Encounters Real in Midwifery
Author/Creator: Andersen, Patrea R | Downer, T | O'Brien, S | Cox, Kristine
Description: Background:
Vulnerable groups, such as pregnant women, are not used in immersive simulation. This can limit opportunities for students to practice real-life clinical examinations. Nonpregnant simulated patient involvement is of limited value if realistic physiological presentations that reflect body changes in pregnancy are unavailable to perform examinations.
Methods:
The authors present an innovative and cost-effective high-fidelity method to create a wearable simulated maternity model that can be worn by nonpregnant actors to simulate pregnancy in immersive simulations in midwifery.
Results:
In this article, we provide step-by-step instructions for constructing a wearable model simulating pregnancy. This enables students to palpate fetal position, listen to the fetal heart, and assess cervical dilation.
Conclusion:
This simulation resource is cost-effective, is simple to implement, and is a highly effective means for simulating pregnancy and teaching skills and critical thinking in higher fidelity complex immersive scenarios.
Relation: Clinical Simulation in Nursing / Vol. 33, No. C, pp.1-6
Relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecns.2019.04.007
Year: 2019
Publisher: Elsevier Inc.
Subject: FoR 1110 (Nursing) | clinical simulation | teaching resources | midwifery | simulated model | pregnancy

Resource Type: Journal Article
Identifier: ISSN: 1876-1399
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