Teaching in a Skills Laboratory Environment

Teaching in a Skills Laboratory Environment

Experiential learning is a critical aspect of nursing academic education and professional development. A skills laboratory environment offers a safe context to facilitate experiential learning for both nursing students and registered nurses.

Revisit the case scenario you created for the previous week’s Collaboration Café. Expand your scenario to address the following:

Describe a skill with that the learners in the clinical environment are struggling to learn.

Discuss how the nurse educator in the scenario creates an opportunity to enhance learning through a focused skills laboratory activity.

Explain how the experiential learning activity in the skills laboratory will be carried out.

How will this skills laboratory activity improve learning outcomes? Provide an example.

How will this skills laboratory learning activity cultivate clinical decision-making skills? Provide an example.