Implementation of virtual standardized patient psychotherapy simulations with psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner students

IF 3.4 3区医学 Q1 NURSING

Clinical Simulation in Nursing Pub Date : 2025-05-01 DOI:10.1016/j.ecns.2025.101730

Anne L. Thatcher DNP

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Abstract

Background

Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners (PMHNP) are certified to conduct psychotherapy, yet many online and hybrid PMHNP educational programs struggle to teach this content in a virtual format. Standardized patient (SP) simulations are used in other mental health professional education programs, but little is known about this teaching method in PMHNP programs in a virtual format. With increasing needs for psychotherapists in the United States, PMHNPs skilled in psychotherapy could fill a needed provider gap.

Method

Using the Defined Criteria to Report Innovations in Education (DoCTRINE) reporting framework this article details the development, implementation, and preliminary evaluation of a PMHNP curriculum innovation adding virtual SP psychotherapy simulations to traditional didactic teaching methods and assesses changes in students’ knowledge, skills, and confidence.

Results

Results show educationally significant improvement in knowledge in 50% of modules, and to a greater extent, improvement in skills (66.7% of modules) and confidence (66.7% of modules).

Conclusions

Lessons learned, limitations, and future recommendations are detailed. The results of this evaluation indicate this is a promising new teaching methodology, and future more robust studies are warranted.

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实施虚拟标准化病人心理治疗模拟与精神科精神卫生护士执业学生

精神科心理健康执业护士（PMHNP）获得了心理治疗的认证，然而许多在线和混合PMHNP教育项目都很难以虚拟形式教授这些内容。标准化患者（SP）模拟在其他心理健康专业教育项目中也有应用，但在PMHNP项目中对这种虚拟教学方法知之甚少。随着美国对心理治疗师的需求不断增加，精通心理治疗的PMHNPs可以填补所需的提供者缺口。方法使用“教育创新报告定义标准”（DoCTRINE）报告框架，本文详细介绍了PMHNP课程创新的开发、实施和初步评估，该课程在传统的教学方法中添加了虚拟SP心理治疗模拟，并评估了学生知识、技能和信心的变化。结果结果显示，50%的模块在知识方面有显著的教育意义上的提高，在更大程度上，技能（66.7%的模块）和信心（66.7%的模块）的提高。结论总结了本研究的经验教训、局限性及今后的建议。评估结果表明，这是一种很有前途的新教学方法，未来有必要进行更有力的研究。

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来源期刊

Clinical Simulation in Nursing NURSING-

CiteScore

5.50

自引率

15.40%

发文量

107

期刊介绍： Clinical Simulation in Nursing is an international, peer reviewed journal published online monthly. Clinical Simulation in Nursing is the official journal of the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation & Learning (INACSL) and reflects its mission to advance the science of healthcare simulation. We will review and accept articles from other health provider disciplines, if they are determined to be of interest to our readership. The journal accepts manuscripts meeting one or more of the following criteria: Research articles and literature reviews (e.g. systematic, scoping, umbrella, integrative, etc.) about simulation Innovative teaching/learning strategies using simulation Articles updating guidelines, regulations, and legislative policies that impact simulation Leadership for simulation Simulation operations Clinical and academic uses of simulation.