Effectiveness of Simulation Best Practices in Nurse Practitioner Education

Nurse educators are challenged to implement simulation best practices (SBP) in advanced practice curricula. Prebriefing and debriefing were implemented in a nurse practitioner course using software-generated asynchronous virtual simulation. A pretest-posttest design was used to evaluate simulation scores and debriefing experience in a convenience sample of 36 students. Scores were statistically higher in the prebriefing group. Debriefing experience scale scores increased on the posttest with four items showing statistical significance. Results of the study provide support for implementation of SBP with prebriefing in online graduate-level nursing education.