An Educational Strategy Structured for Critical care Nurses: to Identify Early Potential Safety Threats & Lead a Way Ahead to Patient Safety at Institutional Level

Abstract

Introduction: The demand for experienced nurses in various Indian health sectors during the pandemic time is quite high, as many Indian nurses are migrating abroad for better jobs opportunities, their life sustenance and an easy process to go to European countries and a shortage of experienced staff is easily seen in the most of the private health care sectors and even a shortage of instructors at bedside level to provide bedside training to new fresher nurses where simulation lab can save time and provide one-time investment training for the critical care skills where new nurses can easily succeed. Various challenges related to simulation lab establishment were faced by healthcare sectors too, such as lack of resources and the need for improved patient-care outcomes. Simulation-assisted learning used in nursing induction training not only reduces the patient encounters incidents, but it also enhances their skills and gains confidence in various nursing procedures. Common advantages to having a simulation lab in an institute are it helps in fewer numbers of trainers as well as to compliance with the various clinical and nursing processes and improves its efficiencies too. The current world is heading towards continuously improving patient care outcomes where simulation-assisted training delivers the best learning for non-experienced staff to provide benchmarking and best practice insights to new nurses to better prepare for real nursing practice skills. As the healthcare sectors are changing rapidly and various innovation takes place daily, where we need to keep pace and attract the best nurses, we need a leading-edge simulation management solution that allows us to exceed the expectations of today and prepare institute infrastructure for more demanding situations for coming situations. High attrition during less than one-year of nurses' tenure is very much alarming at the study institute level, Need for a structured skills training for nurses. The objective was to frame an educational strategy structured for Critical care Nurses: to identify early potential safety threats and lead a way ahead to patient safety at the institutional level. Methodology: A descriptive Quantitative study approach was adopted. Randomized samples were selected for the study. The findings of this study suggested a total of 100 nurses completed simulation-assisted training successfully and deployed at the bedside. A descriptive and inferential statistics database was used to analyze the knowledge and skills of nurses through frequency and percentage distribution. This educational strategy is designed in a way that the skills needed by new nurses have been met to make herself/ himself well-equipped confident bedside nurses. There was a 73% significant improvement in the knowledge and skills of the nurses.5 Conclusion: The simulation-assisted training based on enhances critical skills, competencies and knowledge to cope with the demanding working needs on the clinical side.