Using Combined Teaching Modalities to Enhance Nursing Students’ Recognition and Response to Clinical Deterioration

Abstract

Newly licensed registered nurses are confronted with complex patient situations on a daily basis. As nurse educators, it is imperative that we prepare nursing students to manage clinical deterioration events as newly licensed registered nurses in order to achieve optimum patient outcomes. This article describes the components of an innovative elective nursing course titled Acute Patient Deterioration. The course uses a variety of teaching modalities to teach nursing students to quickly recognize and respond to acute patient deterioration events.