Highlights
- •Nurse practitioner students need exposure to high-acuity, low-frequency diseases.
- •Escape rooms are an established educational tool to actively engage learners.
- •An acute care escape room activity challenged students' knowledge and skills.
Abstract
Nurse practitioner students may complete clinical rotations without exposure to many
high-acuity, low-frequency disease states. Students must readily recognize and apply
their diagnostic and critical thinking skills to these low-frequency clinical conditions.
This report describes the impact of an escape room activity on the knowledge acquisition
and perceptions of adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioner students. Postactivity
assessment surveys were overwhelmingly positive, confirming student perceptions of
the escape room as a collaborative learning tool that identified their knowledge gaps.
All student teams successfully escaped the room, and a postactivity knowledge assessment
confirmed the student's knowledge of the escape room content.
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Biography
All authors are at the Creighton University College of Nursing, Omaha, NE. Lindsay Iverson, DNP, ACNP, CHSE, is an associate professor and can be contacted at [email protected],
Biography
Theresa Jizba, DNP, AGACNP, ACHPN, is an assistant professor, and Lucas Manning, MSN, RN, CHSE, is a simulation coordinator.
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Publication history
Published online: February 02, 2023
Footnotes
Funding: This work was supported by the Center for Faculty Excellence (CFE) from Creighton University.
In compliance with standard ethical guidelines, the authors report no relationships with business or industry that would pose a conflict of interest.
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