Effects of Repeated Simulation-Exposure on Hospital Emergency Care

This study was conducted to verify effects of repeated simulationexposure by the role on hospital emergency care. A non-equivalent control group design was used in this study. 144 nursing students had 6 time simulation-based educations. The experimental group (n=65) had leader experiences but the control group (n=79) didn’t have. Satisfaction, selfevaluation and performance were measured to compare the differences between the two groups. Data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation, two sample ttest and two way repeated measured ANOVA. Satisfaction (t=0.257, p=.798), self-evaluation (t=-1.650, p=.102), and performance (t=0.147, p=.883) scores between the groups were not significantly different after the educations. Performance scores were significantly increased by the number of the simulation-exposure (F=412.724, p<.001), but not significantly different by the leader experience (F=1.246, p=.266). This study would support that repeated simulation-exposures improved the performance level on hospital emergency care regardless of role of simulation settings.