Escape Room: Innovative Teaching Strategy to Stimulate Critical Thinking/Judgment in Nursing Students.

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Veronica Rakaczky Smith, Patricia Ann Paul

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Veronica Rakaczky Smith: About the Authors Veronica Smith, MSN, RN, CMSRN, is an assistant professor of nursing, Community College of Allegheny County, West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. Patricia Paul, DNP, RN, CNE, is a professor of nursing, Community College of Allegheny County. For more information, contact Veronica Smith at vsmith@ccac.edu.

PMID: 32649477 DOI: 10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000000700

ABSTRACT: The Escape Room, an innovative teaching strategy, can be customized to various nursing scenarios. Student teams complete puzzles and tasks to reach designated goals and objectives within a limited time frame. Escape Rooms were designed as a clinical make-up day for 10 first-year, second-semester associate degree nursing students. Using activity theory to create a constructivist learning environment, scenarios were designed to focus on diabetic ketoacidosis and safety/environmental factors associated with aspiration pneumonia and wound dehiscence. This student sample evaluated the Escape Room experiences as an effective method for content retention and clinical thinking/judgment.

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