Professor Simon Cooper
Adjunct Professor
Campus
Biography
Professor Simon Cooper is an experienced health professional and senior manager, with a PhD in leadership studies and 40 years’ work in the clinical and academic fields. Professor Cooper has worked in emergency care in the UK and Australia.
Simon has led innovative educational and research programs across the world in the field of advanced practice development, patient safety, emergency care, leadership, teamwork, education and clinical simulation. He has published over 150 peer reviewed papers, books and reports, and has secured a range of competitive grants to the value of approximately $6 million.
Simon is the Associate Dean (Research) for the School of Health at Federation University Australia. He is also the Co-Director of the Health Innovation and Transformation Centre, where he also leads the Patient Safety and Care Quality stream.
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- Publications
Confirming the validity and reliability of the Placement Evaluation Tool to evaluate midwifery practice placements (PET-Midwifery)
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.midw.2025.104310
Contextual determinants impacting final year nursing students' emergency team communication during deteriorating patient simulations: A grounded theory study
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2024.106183
Perceptions of being a registered nurse (PRN): development and validation of a survey tool
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1186/s12912-023-01324-7
Falls risk perception measures in hospital: a COSMIN systematic review
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- DOI reference: 10.1186/s41687-023-00603-w
Exploring Hospital Inpatients' Awareness of Their Falls Risk: A Qualitative Exploratory Study
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.3390/ijerph20010454
Review article: Use of the Team Emergency Assessment Measure in the rating of emergency teams' non-technical skills: A mapping review
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/1742-6723.14184
Bachelor of Science in Nursing students' perceptions of being a nurse: A scoping review
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2022.07.021
Adult Inpatients' Perceptions of Their Fall Risk: A Scoping Review
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- DOI reference: 10.3390/healthcare10060995
Upskilling Australian registered nurses to enhance students’ clinical placement experiences: a contemporary discussion
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- DOI reference: 10.37464/2020.393.645
Decision-Making Errors During Recognizing and Responding to Clinical Deterioration: Gaze Path-Cued Retrospective Think-Aloud
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ecns.2022.08.002
An Update on the Most Influential Nursing Simulation Studies: A Bibliometric Analysis
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ecns.2022.05.003
Contextual factors influencing patients' experiences of acute deterioration and medical emergency team (MET) encounter: A grounded theory study
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/jan.15336
Using virtual simulation to teach evidence-based practice in nursing curricula: A rapid review
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/wvn.12572
Enhancing nursing and midwifery students' clinical placements: Development of the national placement evaluation centre
The TEAM instrument for measuring emergency team performance: validation of the Swedish version at two emergency departments
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- DOI reference: 10.1186/s13049-021-00952-9
What Helps, What Hinders? Undergraduate Nursing Students’ Perceptions of Clinical Placements Based on a Thematic Synthesis of Literature
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- DOI reference: 10.1177/23779608211035845
Measuring the safety climate in an Australian emergency department
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ienj.2021.101048
Undergraduate Health Professional Students’ Team Communication in Simulated Emergency Settings: A Scoping Review
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ecns.2021.07.004
An Evidence-Based Checklist for Improving Scoping Review Quality
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- DOI reference: 10.1177/1054773819846024
The prevalence and management of deteriorating patients in an Australian emergency department
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.auec.2020.07.008
The impact of intellectual disability nurse specialists in the United Kingdom and Eire Ireland: An integrative review
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1002/nop2.690
The impact of web-based and face-to-face simulation education programs on nurses' response to patient deterioration: A multi-site interrupted time series study
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2021.104939
Nursing degree students’ clinical placement experiences in Australia: A survey design
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nepr.2021.103112
Nursing students' evaluation of clinical practice placements using the Clinical Learning Environment, Supervision and Nurse Teacher scale – A systematic review
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2021.104983
The Nominal Group Technique: Generating Consensus in Nursing Research
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- DOI reference: 10.3928/01484834-20200122-02
Patients' experiences of acute deterioration: A scoping review
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2019.103404
Nurses' cognitive and perceptual bias in the identification of clinical deterioration cues
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.aucc.2019.08.006
Nursing teamwork in general ward settings: A mixed-methods exploratory study among enrolled and registered nurses
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/jocn.15410
Corrigendum to “Patients’ experiences of acute deterioration: A scoping review” [Int. J. Nur. Stud. 101 (2020) 103404](S0020748919302111)(10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2019.103404)
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2019.103482
Measuring the quality of nursing clinical placements and the development of the Placement Evaluation Tool (PET) in a mixed methods co-design project
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1186/s12912-020-00491-1
Progress in the Quest to Improve Patient Safety through Simulation
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ecns.2020.05.009
The Impact of Emerging Simulation-Based Technologies on the Management of Deteriorating Patients: Aiming for a Gold Standard Educational Evaluation
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ecns.2020.05.004
Non-pharmacological depression therapies for older Chinese adults: A systematic review & meta-analysis
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.archger.2020.104037
A cross-sectional survey of nursing students' patient safety knowledge
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104372
Telling it like it is: What do we really know about replacing clinical practice with simulation?
Talking the talk and walking the walk: Are patient safety priorities addressed by simulation-based education?
Clinical placements in contemporary nursing education: Where is the evidence?
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2019.104202
Locating "gold standard" evidence for simulation as a substitute for clinical practice in prelicensure health professional education: A systematic review
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/jocn.14965
Bibliometric Scan of the 100 Most Cited Nursing Simulation Articles
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ecns.2019.06.004
Clinical deterioration of ward patients in the presence of antecedents: A systematic review and narrative synthesis
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.aucc.2018.06.004
The influence of anxiety on student nurse performance in a simulated clinical setting: A mixed methods design
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2019.06.006
What's in a Name? Clarifying the Nomenclature of Virtual Simulation
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ecns.2018.11.003
Exploring the extent to which simulation-based education addresses contemporary patient safety priorities: A scoping review
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.colegn.2018.04.006
What factors influence midwives to provide obstetric high dependency care on the delivery suite or request care be escalated away from the obstetric unit? Findings of a focus group study
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1186/s12884-019-2487-0
Can scholarship in nursing/midwifery education result in a successful research career?
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/jan.13698
Research publication performance of Australian Professors of Nursing & Midwifery
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/jan.13338
Development and psychometric testing of a Clinical Reasoning Evaluation Simulation Tool (CREST) for assessing nursing students' abilities to recognize and respond to clinical deterioration
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2017.12.009
Exploring young Australian adults' asthma management to develop an educational video
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1177/0017896917740721
The educational impact of web-based and face-to-face patient deterioration simulation programs: An interventional trial
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2018.01.037
Rating teams' non-technical skills in the emergency department: A qualitative study of nurses' experience
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ienj.2017.12.006
Best practice in clinical simulation education ? are we there yet? A cross-sectional survey of simulation in Australian and New Zealand pre-registration nursing education
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.colegn.2017.09.003
Nursing students' educational experience in regional Australia: Reflections on acute events. A qualitative review of clinical incidents
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nepr.2018.06.007
Inattentional blindness and pattern-matching failure: The case of failure to recognize clinical cues
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.apergo.2018.07.001
Teamwork: What should we measure and how should we measure it?
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ienj.2016.10.004
Eye tracking to investigate cue processing in medical decision-making: A scoping review
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.chb.2016.09.022
Use of simulation-based learning in undergraduate nurse education: An umbrella systematic review
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2016.11.015
Designing and evaluating the effectiveness of a serious game for safe administration of blood transfusion: A randomized controlled trial
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2017.04.027
The factors that influence junior doctors' capacity to recognise, respond and manage patient deterioration in an acute ward setting: An integrative review
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.aucc.2016.09.004
A Systematic Review of Reciprocal Peer Tutoring within Tertiary Health Profession Educational Programs.
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.hpe.2016.12.001
Effectiveness of paracetamol versus ibuprofen administration in febrile children: A systematic literature review
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/jpc.13507
Anxiety and Clinical Performance in Simulated Setting in Undergraduate Health Professionals Education: An Integrative Review
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ecns.2017.05.015
Deteriorating Patients: Global Reach and Impact of an E-Simulation Program
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ecns.2017.06.004
The value of simulation-based learning in pre-licensure nurse education: A state-of-the-art review and meta-analysis
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nepr.2017.08.012
The impact of a Web-based educational program on the recognition and management of deteriorating patients
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/jocn.13955
The impact of walk-in centres and GP co-operatives on emergency department presentations: A systematic review of the literature
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ienj.2017.04.002
Measuring non-technical skills in medical emergency care: A review of assessment measures
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- DOI reference: 10.2147/oaem.s6693
A mixed-methods study of interprofessional learning of resuscitation skills
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2009.03432.x
The time is right for Web-based clinical simulation programs in nursing education
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.5430/jnep.v5n11p113
The divided self: Near death experiences of resuscitated patients - A review of literature
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ienj.2011.05.005
The effectiveness of education in the recognition and management of deteriorating patients: A systematic review
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2016.06.001
The implementation of Mask-Ed: Reflections of academic participants
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nepr.2014.05.008
Respiratory rate records: the repeated rate?
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/jocn.12234
Preparing nursing students for the future: Development and implementation of an Australian Bachelor of Nursing programme with a community health focus
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1080/10376178.2014.11081955
Is simulation a substitute for real life clinical experience in midwifery? A qualitative examination of perceptions of educational leaders
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2011.02.014
Patient Deterioration Education: Evaluation of Face-to-Face Simulation and e-Simulation Approaches
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ecns.2014.10.010
Measuring non-technical skills of medical emergency teams: An update on the validity and reliability of the Team Emergency Assessment Measure (TEAM)
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2013.08.276
Improving the non-technical skills of hospital medical emergency teams: The Team Emergency Assessment Measure (TEAM (TM))
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/1742-6723.12643
Improving emergency care pathways: an action research approach
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- DOI reference: 10.1136/emj.2009.082859
FIRST(2)ACT: Educating nurses to identify patient deterioration - A theory-based model for best practice simulation education
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2011.03.006
Hybrid simulated patient methodology: Managing maternal deterioration
- Book Chapters
- DOI reference: 10.1002/9781118760673.ch17
Current Continuing Professional Education Practice among Malaysian Nurses
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1155/2014/126748
Rating medical emergency teamwork performance: Development of the Team Emergency Assessment Measure (TEAM)
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.11.027
Mixed methods research: a design for emergency care research?
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- DOI reference: 10.1136/emj.2010.096321
Developing situation awareness amongst nursing and paramedicine students utilizing eye tracking technology and video debriefing techniques: A proof of concept paper
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ienj.2014.11.001
Developing advanced rural nursing practice: A whole new scope of responsibility
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.colegn.2011.08.001
Managing deteriorating patients: registered nurses' performance in a simulated setting
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- DOI reference: 10.2174/18744346011050100120
Managing women with acute physiological deterioration: Student midwives performance in a simulated setting
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.wombi.2011.08.009
Identifying patient deterioration: Using simulation and reflective interviewing to examine decision making skills in a rural hospital
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2011.11.018
Clinical decision-making: midwifery students' recognition of, and response to, post partum haemorrhage in the simulation environment
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1186/1471-2393-12-19
Patient deterioration simulation experiences: Impact on teaching and learning
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.colegn.2012.03.011
Managing patient deterioration: a protocol for enhancing undergraduate nursing students' competence through web-based simulation and feedback techniques
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- DOI reference: 10.1186/1472-6955-11-18
Can eye-tracking technology improve situational awareness in paramedic clinical education?
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- DOI reference: 10.2147/OAEM.S53021
SITUATION AWARENESS IN UNDERGRADUATE NURSING STUDENTS MANAGING SIMULATED PATIENT DETERIORATION
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2013.12.013
Communication challenges in surgical oncology
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.suronc.2010.07.006
Developing team based acute care scenarios: A rural hospital experience
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ienj.2012.08.002
Attitudes, implementation and practice of family presence during resuscitation (FPDR): A quantitative literature review
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ienj.2012.04.002
Measuring situation awareness in emergency settings: a systematic review of tools and outcomes
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- DOI reference: 10.2147/OAEM.S53679
Family presence during resuscitation (FPDR): Perceived benefits, barriers and enablers to implementation and practice
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ienj.2013.07.001
Emergency Resuscitation team roles: What constitutes a team and who's looking after the family?
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- DOI reference: 10.5430/jnep.v4n3p124
Leadership and teamwork in medical emergencies: performance of nursing students and registered nurses in simulated patient scenarios
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/jocn.12611
Barriers and enablers to learning during team-based clinical simulations: reflective interviews with final year undergraduate nursing students
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- DOI reference: 10.5430/jnep.v4n10p32
Assessing preregistration nursing students' clinical competence: A systematic review of objective measures
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/ijn.12053
Managing patient deterioration: assessing teamwork and individual performance
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- DOI reference: 10.1136/emermed-2012-201312
The FIRST2ACT simulation program improves nursing practice in a rural Australian hospital
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/j.1440-1584.2012.01296.x
Training paradigms to enhance clinical observational skills in clinical practice: A scoping review
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- DOI reference: 10.5430/jnep.v5n12p96
Attitudes towards vital signs monitoring in the detection of clinical deterioration: scale development and survey of ward nurses
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- DOI reference: 10.1093/intqhc/mzv019
The perspectives of Australian midwifery academics on barriers and enablers for simulation in midwifery education in Australia: A focus group study
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.midw.2011.07.005
A trial of e-simulation of sudden patient deterioration (FIRST2ACT WEB) on student learning
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2015.08.003
Family presence during resuscitation (FPDR): A survey of emergency personnel in Victoria, Australia
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.aenj.2014.12.003
Designing a medical records review tool: an instructional guide
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- DOI reference: 10.1080/10376178.2015.1010260
Undergraduate nursing students' performance in recognising and responding to sudden patient deterioration in high psychological fidelity simulated environments: An Australian multi-centre study
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2013.09.015
Barriers and enablers to the use of high-fidelity patient simulation manikins in nurse education: an integrative review
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2015.08.005
E-simulation Preregistration Nursing Students' Evaluation of an Online Patient Deterioration Program
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- DOI reference: 10.1097/CIN.0000000000000133
Doing the Right Thing at the Right Time Assessing Responses to Patient Deterioration in Electronic Simulation Scenarios Using Course-of-Action Analysis
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- DOI reference: 10.1097/CIN.0000000000000141
Access to, interest in and attitude toward e-learning for continuous education among Malaysian nurses
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2015.09.011
Measuring teamwork performance: Validity testing of the Team Emergency Assessment Measure (TEAM) with clinical resuscitation teams
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2016.01.026
Team Emergency Assessment Measure (TEAM) for the assessment of non-technical skills during resuscitation: Validation of the French version
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2015.11.024
The impact of web-based and face-to-face simulation on patient deterioration and patient safety: protocol for a multi-site multi-method design
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1186/s12913-016-1683-0
An analysis of nursing students' decision-making in teams during simulations of acute patient deterioration
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/jan.13009
Enhancing the management of deteriorating patients with Australian on line e-simulation software: Acceptability, transferability, and impact in Hong Kong
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/nhs.12282
Simulation based learning in Australian midwifery curricula: Results of a national electronic survey
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.wombi.2011.02.001
Simulation in the Internet age: The place of Web-based simulation in nursing education. An integrative review
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.nedt.2014.08.001
The use and limits of eye-tracking in high-fidelity clinical scenarios: A pilot study
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ienj.2015.08.002
Simulation versus lecture? Measuring educational impact: Considerations for best practice
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- DOI reference: 10.1136/eb-2015-102221
Simulation-based learning in nurse education: Systematic review
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2009.05240.x
Use of educational games in the health professions: A mixed-methods study of educators' perspectives in the UK
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/j.1442-2018.2009.00479.x
Managing the deteriorating patient in a simulated environment: Nursing students' knowledge, skill and situation awareness
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- DOI reference: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2009.03164.x
Final-year nursing students' ability to assess, detect and act on clinical cues of deterioration in a simulated environment
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05417.x
Qualitative research: Specific designs for qualitative research in emergency care?
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- DOI reference: 10.1136/emj.2008.071159
New and emerging roles in out of hospital emergency care: A review of the international literature
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- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ienj.2008.11.004