Document Type

Presentation - Oral - to academic peers, less than or equal to 1 hour

The Great Escape: A Trilogy of Escape Rooms to Engage & Educate Nursing Students

Department

Nursing

Date of Activity

Summer 7-18-2023

Abstract

Nurse educators are looking for effective ways to engage multi-generational learners (including Gen-Z) and prepare them for clinical practice and NextGen NCLEX success. (Johnson, 2023; Wintheiser & Beckness, 2023). Nurse educators are challenged to help learners develop clinical judgment and critical thinking to prepare them for clinical practice and NextGen NCLEX success (Johnson, 2023). One proposed strategy to address these challenges is the implementation of educational escape rooms.

Escape rooms have been used in higher education (Pozo-Sánchez et al., 2022) and for medical students and healthcare professionals (Rosenkrantz et al., 2019). Additionally, escape rooms have been used by healthcare system educators for new graduate/employee orientation and annual competency education (Adams et al., 2019; Daniels et al., 2022, Dunne, 2022; Gates & Youngberg-Campos, 2020; Millsaps & Swihart, 2021) and by educators at institutions of higher education (Antón-Solanas et al., 2022; Gómez-Urquiza et al., 2022; Kutzin, 2019; Tassemeyer et al., 2021; Vestal et al., 2021; Wintheiser & Beckness, 2023). Educational escape rooms have varied in topic including general nursing (Adams et al., 2019; Daniels et al., 2022; Gates & Youngberg-Campos, 2020), ER nursing (Millsaps & Swihart, 2021), critical care nursing (Gates & Youngberg-Campos, 2020), OB (Dunne, 2022; Tassemeyer et al., 2021), pediatrics (Wintheiser & Beckness, 2023). Several studies used educational escape rooms for Fundamentals nursing students (Antón-Solanas et al., 2022; Vestal et al., 2021), OB students (Tassemeyer et al., 2021), Adult Health students (Gómez-Urquiza et al., 2022) and graduate students (Gates & Youngberg-Campos, 2020). Antón-Solanas et al. (2022) described an online escape room, while Vestal et al. (2021) described the conversion of an in-person escape room to an online escape room. Overall, these studies described educational escape rooms as interactive and engaging that increased confidence, encouraged critical thinking, promoted collaboration, and developed communication in a setting that created realistic time urgency.

This presentation will demonstrate three different types of escape rooms in the educational setting. The first activity is an in-person classroom escape room on the topic of dosage calculation. The second activity is an online escape room activity summarizing key topics in a fundamentals course. The third activity is an in-person skills lab escape room activity on the topic of pneumonia for second-year adult health students. Each activity was developed by one of the presenters.

References

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