TY - JOUR
T1 - Telehealth Simulation of Psychiatric and Chronic Disease Comorbidity
T2 - Response to the COVID-19 National Epidemic
AU - Abram, Marissa D.
AU - Guilamo-Ramos, Vincent
AU - Lobelo, Adrial
AU - Forbes, Maryann O.
AU - Caliendo, Geralyn
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge and thank Mr. Anthony Egan, the director of the Clinical Education and Simulation Lab at Adelphi University's College of Nursing and Public Health, for his support in implementing this simulation. The authors in this study have no conflicts of interests or financial disclosures to declare.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021
PY - 2021/5
Y1 - 2021/5
N2 - Background: Health care education, including simulations, has been disrupted by COVID-19, challenging educators to devise innovative ways to continue instruction. Methods: We conducted a pilot study to explore student perceptions of utilizing telehealth technology to manage the crisis care of psychiatric patients in the COVID-19 pandemic. Students were asked to complete an online open-ended survey on their perspectives regarding the use of telehealth as a delivery mechanism and skill in the telehealth management of comorbidities. Results: Students agreed that telehealth technology is feasible and acceptable. Because of the simulation, nursing students expressed increased openness to, interest in, and confidence in using telemedicine for the management of psychiatric patients. Conclusions: Our study shows that telemedicine simulations can improve nursing students’ comfort with and future use of telemedicine for treating psychiatric patients.
AB - Background: Health care education, including simulations, has been disrupted by COVID-19, challenging educators to devise innovative ways to continue instruction. Methods: We conducted a pilot study to explore student perceptions of utilizing telehealth technology to manage the crisis care of psychiatric patients in the COVID-19 pandemic. Students were asked to complete an online open-ended survey on their perspectives regarding the use of telehealth as a delivery mechanism and skill in the telehealth management of comorbidities. Results: Students agreed that telehealth technology is feasible and acceptable. Because of the simulation, nursing students expressed increased openness to, interest in, and confidence in using telemedicine for the management of psychiatric patients. Conclusions: Our study shows that telemedicine simulations can improve nursing students’ comfort with and future use of telemedicine for treating psychiatric patients.
KW - COVID-19
KW - graduate nurse education
KW - psychiatric mental health simulation
KW - telehealth simulation
KW - transitions in care simulation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ecns.2021.02.001
DO - 10.1016/j.ecns.2021.02.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85103797818
SN - 1876-1399
VL - 54
SP - 86
EP - 96
JO - Clinical Simulation in Nursing
JF - Clinical Simulation in Nursing
ER -