Using Escape Rooms as a Simulation Teaching Strategy
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最近几年,simulation escape roomsas an educational modality have piqued the interest of many educators in healthcare. Educators and learners alike find escape rooms more engaging, interesting, and fun. More importantly, the use of game-based teaching strategies and a realistic “story” make the learning in an escape room stick.
We interviewed Janine Valko, MSN, BN, CEN, Simulation Education Manager, STAR Center at the Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has years of experience planning, designing, and running simulation escape rooms in healthcare. We are grateful that she was willing to take the time to share her knowledge with us.
To read Janine’s responses, click each question below.
I attribute the popularity of escape rooms in the educational setting to the fact that today’s learners are different. Today’s learners grew up immersed with digital technologies. Educators must be able to solve important issues of adapting the learning process to students who have different learning styles and new requirements for learning.Educators must challenge students to be analytical and creative, engage students with technology and create opportunities for active learning.
The escape room methodology is an example of Game Based Learning (GBL) which is an educational approach that increases the motivation and engagement therefore meeting the needs of today’s learner.
逃生室的音频和视觉元素在学习者的思想中停留的时间比传统的学习环境更长。我将模拟的逃生室称为连接的学习体验。逃生室的每个步骤都连接到学习者将来可以与之相关联的难题。
归因于逃生室受欢迎的最重要方面之一就是,逃生室通过使学习有趣来吸引参与者。When learning is fun, learning sticks.
我们的明星团队在模拟环境会议上参加了2018年IMSH会议逃生室。我们的团队决定通过使用创新的方法来教授明星中心最要求的课程之一来创建我们的第一个逃生室;模拟代码。
我们确定在通过协议管理模拟代码时,顺序步骤将完美地拟合到线性逃生室模型的模板中。
Overwhelmingly, we have had positive feedback with each facilitation of the escape room. Our learners truly appreciated this modality of teaching.
我们的心理学家劳拉·丹尼尔(Laura Daniel)博士为我们的逃生室设计了独特的评估。分析完成后,在接受调查的54名参与者中,至少有94%同意或同意了20个评估陈述中的19个。
Learners stated it helped them think critically and creatively, process and prioritize while using effective communication skills.评估的反馈始终重复出现形容词,例如“娱乐”,“创新”和“引人入胜”。学习者说,他们没有意识到30分钟过去了,并且可以看到整体教育经验的价值。
Escape rooms encourage the skills of teamwork, problem solving, communication, critical thinking, interprofessional collaboration and attention to detail making the escape room methodology of teaching very attractive for clinical, academia and leadership settings.
我们已经成功地为护理学生,临床人员和组织的执行领袖提供了促进逃生室。
The main value in creating an in situ escape room is theteam buildingbenefit the escape room promotes. Facilitating the escape room in situ would permit teams to naturally come together and attend the sessions engaging them to work together as they would in their own environment to problem solve and think critically, tapping into each other’s strengths to successfully achieve a goal.
Indeed, escape rooms will test your organizational skills as you use your imagination to create puzzles and tasks to escape a room. There are multipledesign templates网上使用,我将帮助你n your design. Using one of these templates will guide you to have success in matching the puzzle with each step of the unfolding case leading to the next sequential task and eventually escaping the room.
根据我的经验,最受欢迎的难题是那些具有挑战性的难题,但不会引起太多的干扰,无法实现学习目标。The only way to verify this is to put your puzzles to the test!
Once you have designed each step of your escape room it is essential to beta test all of your puzzles with your internal team to examine their level of difficulty.
Admittedly, the most successful puzzles seem to be the ones with the most creativity. For example, we placed our first clue above the door on a banner. Learners are too engaged in looking for clues located around the room; they neglect to look up above the door behind them where the clue is overtly located.
The most important element to focus on during a beta test is the flow of the escape room. You want to let your design play out and take notes of barriers or stumbling blocks that may need to be revised.You want to be sure your escape room flows logically in sequence of the objectives you are teaching.You want to give the learners time to critically think, but you do not want obstacles that will impede the flow and their learning.
例如,当我们Beta测试我们的逃生室时,我们意识到对学习者来说,操作其中一个锁是很难的。他们正在进入锁上正确的组合,但锁不会打开。因此,我们更改了锁的类型,以允许逃脱室的特定步骤更好地功能。
The impact I have seen the simulation escape room has had on learning outcomes is giving students the opportunity to recall educational information in a new perspective. Learners connect each puzzle or task with a nugget of learning which is definitely part of the appeal and advantage of escape rooms.
Escape rooms make the answers less obvious, while keeping the process, policy or procedure clear.
For example, if the rate of compressions in a mock code situation is the code for a lock, then instead of just giving them the number, create a riddle or puzzle with letters/numbers missing where the answer would be 100 or 120. They would have to problem solve to enter the correct number and combination of the lock.
Yes, I have had participants from our nurse residency program state that the mock code escape room felt very much like theinterprofessional collaboration这是在其设备上运行代码所需的。
They reported that the puzzles felt like the real tasks you need to complete timely in a code situation; such as prepare a vasopressor drip for a patient using the patient’s weight and pharmacological calculations. Nurses have also reported that this education helped them remember how to prioritize the care of a patient coding according to protocol.
组织成功促进逃生室的价值和投资回报率是,参与者将提高其核心价值观,例如团队合作,时间管理,批判性思维和解决问题,以等。This will in essence foster a better work culture, further unifying your team.
The most profound lessons learned coming from my escape room debriefs would center on ensuring you have completed detailed briefing sessions; both prebriefing anddebriefing。com学习者需要结构和指导plete the activity. By properly prebriefing and debriefing your learners, you will likely have success meeting your learning objectives while making learning enjoyable. The amount and type of guidance should be factored in when designing your escape room experience.
Additionally, I learned that the participants truly appreciated the challenging puzzles and felt accomplished escaping the room and solving the case! It was a bonus that they were able to recite the correct steps of the protocol when we reflected on the steps they conquered to escape the room.
My advice for anyone interested in designing and facilitating and escape room would be togo for it呢
花费的时间创建,设计和建造将是花费的时间。当您看到自己的学习成果取得的成就,而学习者真正享受他们的经历,您将知道这是值得的。
The only pitfall I would avoid would be to design your escape room to be challenging but not too complex. You would not want your learner to be preoccupied by the complexity of the puzzles instead of learning the process, policy or procedure you are teaching. This of course would not hold true if you were building an escape room for the pure pleasure of a team building experience.
Janine Valko登录了35年的护理经验,重点是紧急护理,领导和教育。她的临床教育和经验结合为支持Allegheny Health Network的Star(模拟,教学,学术界和研究)中心担任模拟教育经理的角色提供了良好的学术基础。最近,珍妮(Janine)致力于将逃生室模式融入模拟环境,作为一种创新的学习方法。2019年,她在IMSH会议上介绍了“ Star Center Escape Room案例研究”,并在春季和秋季太阳会议上与Laerdal展示了“逃生室模拟代码”。2020年1月,Janine将在IMSH展示“建立自己的逃生错误室”。