NRSG 201
Complex Medical Surgical Nursing – Clinical
Simulation Lab
April 11 or 25, 2014
Instructor Notes
1. Day consists of 4 modules: Poverty, Discrimination, Age Traits, Gender Traits
2. Counts as 8 hours of clinical time
3. Supplies needed
a. Lab set up with overhead projector and computer
b. Prizes
c. 2 decks of cards
d. Headbands
e. Puzzles – easy kid puzzles
f. Sandwich size plastic bags
g. Highlighters – 2 each of 3 colors
h. Scissors
i. Tape
j. Game pieces
k. Dice
l. Play money
4. Divide group into 2 teams (8 students per lab day – 4 per team)
a. Points earned for each activity – have candy prizes
b. Keep running total of points on board
5. Poverty
a. Can you survive extreme poverty? (flip a coin to see which team goes first)
i. www.live58.org/survivel125
ii. can earn up to 30 points
iii. put up site on overhead projector
iv. as team goes thru have them give rationale why they chose what they did
v. at end have teams discuss “no win” choices; could they make the choice to
survive
b. Board game
i. Give each team 30 – 45 minutes to play game
ii. Score is based on total money team has at end of play
iii. Discuss what kept knocking individual back
iv. Had they experienced such barriers
v. What barriers “knock patients” out of healthcare
6. Discrimination
a. Headband game
i. 2 points per player who was correct in figuring out “headband”
b. N2C card game
7. Age Trait Activity
8. Gender Trait Activity
a. Give 1 point each per group for positive traits
Add up score for the day and award winner and also pretty good prizes.