simulation standards and sources from the NLN were also Simulation and Learning (INACSL) provided by the Munson staff educator for use in learning and practicing facilitation and debriefing techniques. Week # Date Time Activities # of Hours Monday, Jan. 9:00 am – Prepared for facilitating at skills lab 3 27, 2014 12:00 pm Facilitated at critical care skills lab Wednesday, 8:30 am – station pertaining to the analysis of 3.5 Jan. 29, 2014 12:00 pm arterial blood gases. Wednesday, 12:00 pm Participated on interview committee for – 4.5 Jan. 29, 2014 4:30 pm new critical care internship candidates 3 Day 2 of interviews for new critical care Thursday, 10:30 am – internship candidates. Chose candidates 5 Jan. 30, 2014 3:30 pm after interviews were completed. 9:45 am – Finished compiling results of critical Saturday, 11:15, care content areas missed from pre and 4 Feb. 1, 2014 1:00 pm – post BKAT scores. 3:30 pm Week 3 # of Hours 20 Cumulative Total Wks. 1-3 50 Week 3 Summary The third week of this practicum started with preparing for being a facilitator for one of the critical care skills labs. The skills labs are small group sessions with various stations set-up for critical care interns and nurses that have recently trained to critical care. They are held usually once a month and are separated by body systems. This particular lab was the pulmonary skills lab. My assigned station was on arterial blood gas (ABG) analysis. I had obtained some materials from my unit educator last week to help prepare for this lab. Per an email I received from one of the staff educators, each group was going to be at each station for about 30 minutes. Thus I spent several hours reviewing the computer based education that the newly trained critical care nurses get before attending the lab session. I also made copies from the Pass CCRN book of several questions related to I also made an outline of learning objectives, important ABG’s.
Simulation and Learning (INACSL) simulation standards and sources from the NLN were also provided by the Munson staff educator for use in learning and practicing facilitation and debriefing techniques. Week # Date Time Activities # of Hours 3 Monday, Jan. 27, 2014 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Prepared for facilitating at skills lab 3 Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 8:30 am – 12:00 pm Facilitated at critical care skills lab station pertaining to the analysis of arterial blood gases. 3.5 Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 12:00 pm – 4:30 pm Participated on interview committee for new critical care internship candidates 4.5 Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014 10:30 am – 3:30 pm Day 2 of interviews for new critical care internship candidates. Chose candidates after interviews were completed. 5 Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014 9:45 am – 11:15, 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm Finished compiling results of critical care content areas missed from pre and post BKAT scores. 4 Week 3 # of Hours 20 Cumulative Total Wks. 1-3 50 Week 3 Summary The third week of this practicum started with preparing for being a facilitator for one of the critical care skills labs. The skills labs are small group sessions with various stations set-up for critical care interns and nurses that have recently trained to critical care. They are held usually once a month and are separated by body systems. This particular lab was the pulmonary skills lab. My assigned station was on arterial blood gas (ABG) analysis. I had obtained some materials from my unit educator last week to help prepare for this lab. Per an email I received from one of the staff educators, each group was going to be at each station for about 30 minutes. Thus I spent several hours reviewing the computer based education that the newly trained critical care nurses get before attending the lab session. I also made copies from the Pass CCRN book of several questions related to ABG’s. I also made an outline of learning objectives, important
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