Clinical Simulation to Evaluate Students' Intraprofessional Telehealth Skills Between Multiple University Campuses

Abstract

Telehealth is a vital skill for providing access to care, cost-effective quality care, and intraprofessional collaboration. As more schools of nursing move toward online education, the concern is how to effectively train nurse practitioner students with telehealth knowledge and skills. Simulation can prepare students to develop these needed skills and to use telehealth effectively through innovative experiential learning opportunities. To overcome these educational challenges an intraprofessional pilot telehealth simulation was implemented to evaluate nurse practitioner students' knowledge, skills, and clinical abilities between universities.