OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Clinical Simulation in Nursing is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The use of simulation to improve non-technical skills in undergraduate nurse education: A scoping review	404
Professionalism and communication simulation for freshman pre-nursing students	262
The Impact of Prebriefing on Simulation Learning Outcomes – A Systematic Review Protocol	229
An Innovative Teaching Modality to Promote Proficient Gender-Affirming Care	160
Closing the gap: Using simulation to improve public health clinicians’ affirming beliefs and behaviors with LGBT clients	105
Teaching Home Telehealth Nursing: Filling the Gap Though Clinical Simulation	73
A Scaffolded Simulation Curriculum: Translating Simulation with Standardized Patient Encounters into Clinical Practice for Nurse Practitioner Students	72
Psychological Safety in Simulation and Psychological Intrinsic Factors Among Korean Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Cross-Sectional Study	62
Transitioning Undergraduate Maternal-Newborn and Pediatric Hospital Clinical Experience to Immersive Simulation-Based Education	52
Usability, Engagement, Learning Outcomes, Benefits and Challenges of Using a Mobile Classroom Response System During Clinical Simulations for Undergraduate Nursing Students	50
The Effect of a Geriatric Simulation-enhanced Interprofessional Education on Health Profession Students	50
Relationships Between Internal Factors, Social Factors and the Sense of Presence in Virtual Reality-Based Simulations	48
Comparing virtual reality and live standardized patient drill simulation-based triage training methods in terms of triage knowledge and performance	42
The effect of high-fidelity simulation training in preeclampsia and eclampsia management: A single-blind randomized controlled study	40
Family and community nursing: The use of an unfolding simulation via zoom	39
Efficacy of simulation over live clinical rotations in nurse practitioner prenatal education: A retrospective cohort study	38
Understanding Mixed-Methods in Healthcare Simulation Research: Scope and Limitations	30
The Use of Simulation for Clinical Nursing Faculty Orientation: A Multisite Study	30
The Impact of Professional Integrity on Simulation Learning Outcomes –A Systematic Review Protocol	30
Experiences of Paediatric End-of-Life Simulation in Undergraduate Children's Nursing Students: A Qualitative Study	29
Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) for High-Stakes Assessment of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesiologists (CRNAs)	28
Evaluation of a Low-Cost Hybrid Airway Model to Train Nurse Anesthesiology Students in the Performance of Ultrasound-Guided Cricothyrotomy	28
Telehealth Virtual Simulation for Community Health Nursing Students	25
Training of Shoulder Dystocia Using Virtual Reality: A Feasibility Study	25
Exploring simulation-based education in pre-registration nursing curriculum - Barriers and enablers: An integrative review	25

Does Clinical Simulation Learning Enhance Evidence-Based Practice? A Quasi-Experimental Study Involving Nursing Students	24
The Future of Simulation-Based Learning in Acute Pediatric Nursing Education: A Conceptual Review	24
A Longitudinal and Repeated Cross-sectional Study on the Effectiveness of the Transition of Clinical Teaching from Traditional to Simulation Era	24
What is the Best Method to Teach Screen-Based Simulation in Anesthesia Distance Education?	23
Interprofessional Disaster Simulation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Adapting to Fully Online Learning	21
Simulation and a GoPro® camera: Changing Student Nurses’ Perspectives of Patient-Centred Reflection	21
Simulation-Based Pediatric Interprofessional Team Training to Facilitate End-of-Life Discussions	21
Differences in community health nursing learning outcomes based on simulation modality	20
Feasibility and acceptability of incorporating artificial intelligence into simulation education	19
Human Trafficking Simulation in an Undergraduate Nursing Program	19
Learners' Experiences With First-Person Perspective Video Debriefing Using Smart Glasses in Nursing Simulation Education	19
An Innovative Approach for Using Cross-Cultural, Collaborative Simulation during Undergraduate Nursing Study Abroad Exchanges	19
Enhancing Psychological Safety in Advanced Practice Nursing Student Simulation Using an Innovative Visual Tool	17
Simulation in Nursing Education Programs: Findings From an International Exploratory Study	17
The Clinical Judgment Debriefing Structure: Integrating the Clinical Judgement Measurement Model into debriefing	17
Exploring the experiences of undergraduate students as standardized participants	17
Description of In Situ Simulation Activities in Critical Care Units of Québec (Canada)	17
The use of progressive simulation to aid in the development of clinical judgment in prelicensure nursing students	16
Use of the Anesthetists’ Non-technical Skills (ANTS) Framework with screen-based simulation for nurse anesthetists	16
On the Other Side of Simulation: Evaluating Faculty Debriefing Styles	16
Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Self-Debrief Prior to an Asynchronous Debrief	16
Simulated Patients’ Beliefs Towards Mental Illness	15
Experiences of Nursing Students in Observer Roles During Simulation-Based Learning and the Impact on Patient Safety: A Scoping Review	15
High-Fidelity Simulation in Wound Care Education: A Qualitative Evaluation of Efficacy and Acceptability	15
The effect of three different simulation methods used in urinary catheterization training	15
Mandated Reporter Training for Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Students Using Virtual Simulation and Community Collaboration: A Pilot Event	15
Nurturing Clinical Decision-Making Through Simulation: Highlighting the Value of the Human Experience Amidst the Rise of Technology	14
The Impact of an Interprofessional Simulation-Based Education Intervention in Healthy Ageing: A Quasi-Experimental Study	14
Onward and Upward: Introducing the Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best PracticeTM	14
Comparing the Stress, Anxiety, and Learning Effects of Leaders and Team Members in High Fidelity Nursing Simulation	14
Developing Hospital Nurses’ Clinical Reasoning Abilities in Assessing and Managing Clinical Deterioration Using a Virtual Patient Simulation: A Quasi-Experimental Study	14
Integrating Branching Spherical Video Learning into Mental Health Nursing Clinical Education: Feasibility, Efficacy, and Student Impact	13
The use of simulation in the assessment and management of dysphagia: A scoping review	13
Cultural Simulations, Authenticity, Focus, and Outcomes: A Systematic Review of the Healthcare Literature	12
Attitudes of Health Profession Faculty Involved in a Simulation-Based Interprofessional Education Experience	12
Simulation-Based Teaching to Improve Perioperative Care of Transgender Patients	12
The Missing Link: The iSOAP Model for Incorporating Telehealth Within Simulations	12
From games to high fidelity: A comparative study of CPR training methods in nursing education	12
Comparing high fidelity simulator versus wearable simulator on team communication, clinical judgment, and patient safety in an interprofessional team	11
Nursing Students’ Perceptions and Experiences of Using Virtual Simulation During the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
The Use of Simulation Best Practices When Investigating Virtual Simulation in Health care: A Scoping Review	11
Decision-Making Errors During Recognizing and Responding to Clinical Deterioration: Gaze Path-Cued Retrospective Think-Aloud	11
Nursing Student's Perception and Performance Using Rapid Cycle Intentional Simulation: A Quasi-Experiential Pilot Study	11
Effectiveness of virtual reality in training operating room nurses for robotic arm surgery	11
Reducing Nurse Anesthesia Student Anxiety by Aligning a University-Based Simulation Program With Best Practices: A Quality Improvement Project	11
Setting the Stage for Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Education: Outcomes of a Simulated Patient Pilot Program	11
Prioritizing Simulation Facilitators’ Competencies for Professional Development Using Q-Methodology	11
Current state of simulation in advanced practice nursing programs: A survey in French-speaking countries	11
Seeing Beyond the Screen: Integrating Trauma- and Violence-Informed Care During a Telehealth Simulation	11
Preparing students for clinical placement using 360-video	10

A New Chapter in Clinical Simulation in Nursing	10
The work behind an interdisciplinary team: Creating a postpartum hemorrhage virtual reality training platform	10
A Cross-Sectional Analysis of a Novel Virtual Reality Tool for Hotspotting	10
Evaluating Use of Practice Interview Simulations in an Online Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced Practice Nursing Course	10
The Effectiveness of Simulation in the Acquisition of Socioemotional Skills Related to Health Care: A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews	10
Mapping the impact: A citation analysis of top publications in simulation-based nursing education	10
Impact of virtual, augmented or mixed reality in basic life support training: A scoping review	10
Fostering Clinical Decision-Making Using Screen-Based Simulations Aligned with the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model	10
Comparing the Learning Effectiveness of Three Virtual Simulation Tools With Nursing Students During the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic	9
Short term effects of simulation training on stress, anxiety and burnout in critical care health professionals: before and after study	9
Development and evaluation of an integrative-fidelity nursing simulation education program using extended-reality smart glasses: A quasi-experimental study	9
Understanding Nursing Student Choice in Completion of Presimulation Activities	9
2024 to 2027 Research Priorities continue to mirror INACSL's core values	9
New Nurse Self-assessed Clinical Competence, Immersion, and Attitudes Following Virtual Reality Training on the Assessment of Pediatric Respiratory Distress	9
Advancing Healthcare Simulation Through Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Exploring Innovations	9
Artificial intelligence (AI)-facilitated debriefing: A pilot study	9
Cultivating Inclusivity: A Pilot Study Utilizing Simulation-Based Approaches for Weight Bias Mitigation	9
Impacts of Standardized Patients as a Teaching Tool to Develop Communication Skills in Nursing Education: A Mixed-Studies Systematic Review	9
Using Simulation to Teach Intraprofessional Telehealth Communication	9
Comparison of the Effects of Haptic Virtual Versus High-Fidelity Simulations on Knowledge, Skills and Satisfaction of Nursing Students in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Training	9
Piloting a brief psychoeducational intervention to reduce the impact of social anxiety on mental health simulations for nursing students	9
Publisher's Note	9
Creative Solutions for Complex Circumstances: The Utilization of Virtual Reality in a Specialty Course	9
Mediating Effects of Cognitive Load on the Relationship Between Learning Flow and Clinical Reasoning Skills in Virtual Simulation Learning	9
Implementation and Evaluation of a Virtual Reality-Based Cognitive Assessment and Rehabilitation Simulation Course in Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Pre-Post Study	8
Utilizing Nursing Students for a Complex Role-Play Simulation	8
The Missing Link: Cognitive Apprenticeship as a Mentorship Framework for Simulation Facilitator Development	8
Augmented Reality (AR) as a Prebrief for Acute Care Simulation	8
How MASK-ED™ (KRS Simulation) Prepares Nursing Students for Clinical Placements – A Cross-sectional Study	8
Outcomes of Simulation-Based Experiences Related to Family Presence During Resuscitation: A Systematic Review	8
Effects of simulation-based education on nursing students’ perceptions of positive birth and natural birth approaches	8
Virtual Immersion into a Poorly-Managed Medical Crisis Worsens Subsequent Performance: A Randomized, Controlled Trial	8
Changes in Active Class Attitudes Towards Learning and in Discussion Skills of Nursing University Students Engaged in Simulation-Based Education	8
Development and usability of the mixed reality–based intubation nursing simulation: A mixed methods study	8
Prebriefing in simulation from the nursing student perspective: A qualitative descriptive study	7
Simulation as an Element of Second Victim Recovery Programs Following Patient Safety Incidents: A Scoping Review	7
Effects of Experiential Learning Simulation-Based Learning Program on Clinical Judgment Among Obstetric Nursing Students	7
Effectiveness of Debriefing for Meaningful Learning-based simulation training on high-risk neonatal care: A randomized controlled simulation study	7
Comparison of Debriefing for Cultural Humility© to PEARLS: A randomized controlled trial	7
Perioperative inter-professional education training enhance team performance and readiness	7
How your articles are making an impact	7
The Simulation Method as an Appropriate Solution for Developing the Interactional Soft Skills of Midwife Practitioners in Morocco: A Pilot Study	7
Playing Sick and Injured: The Experiences of Undergraduate Nurses as Casualty Actors in a Mass Casualty Simulation Exercise	7
Enhancing Palliative Communication in the Intensive Care Unit Through Simulation: A Quality Improvement Project	7
The Sukkah Drill: A Novel Approach to Incident Command Training	7
Evaluating Efficacy and Usability of Screen-Based Simulation in Difficult Airway Algorithm Training for Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesiologists	7
End of Life Simulation in a Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit	7
A Multimodal Approach to Training Coronavirus Disease (COVID‐19) Processes Across Four Intensive Care Units	7
Emergency Department Pediatric Code Cart In Situ Rolling Refresher Training Program	7
State of Prebriefing and Debriefing in Virtual Simulation	7
Undergraduate Nursing Application of the Rapid Aspiration Screening Tool (RAS-3): An Interprofessional Swallow Screen Simulation	6
Virtual Reality and Screen-Based Simulation Learner Outcomes Using Kirkpatrick's Evaluation Levels: An Integrative Review	6
Pre-simulation Preparation Preferences of Senior Nursing Students: Virtual Simulation Games Versus Traditional Case Studies	6
A Comparative Study of Debriefer Versus Debriefee Distance Simulation Engagement	6
Education Regarding Opioid Prescribing, Opioid Tapering, and Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) for Nurse Practitioner Students Using Virtual Simulation Games: A Pilot Study	6
Effectiveness of In Situ Simulation in Determining Nursing Students’ Perceived Level of Communication Skills While Using Personal Protective Equipment	6
Transforming National League for Nursing Advancing Care Excellence for Seniors Unfolding Cases into Virtual Simulations: An Innovative Approach for Interactive Learning	6
Collaborative Healthcare: Exploring Interprofessional Simulation Among Nursing and Child Life Students	6
Guided Reflection: Experiential Learning Toward Safe and Accountable Nursing Practice	6
The Impact of Virtual Simulation on Empathy in Undergraduate Nursing Students	6
Mental Health Stigma Reduction Through Simulated Professional Practice: A Mixed Methods Study	6
Upcoming Special Issue: Interdisciplinary Education and Research in Healthcare Simulation	6
Cross-cultural validation of the Debriefing Experience Scale: French version	6
How the Pandemic Impacted Simulation: Where Do We Go From Here?	5
Comparison of Two Simulation Tools to Develop Empathic Communication Skills in Nursing Students Breaking Bad News: A Randomized Controlled Study	5
Utilizing co-design and research for authentic simulation development	5
Baby Steps Program: Telehealth Nursing Simulation for Undergraduate Public Health Nursing Students	5
Exploring nursing assistants’ experiences of empathy development through aging simulation in long-term care: A qualitative study	5
Using simulated patients to teach de-escalation during Registered Nurses' onboarding	5
Challenging the Nuances of Pain Assessment With Co-designed Audio-Visual Simulations in Nursing Education: A Descriptive Study	5
Integration of virtual simulation to re-establish clinical placements for pre-licensure nursing students	5
Faculty's Perception on Student Performance using vSim for Nursing® as a Teaching Strategy	5
Clinical Simulation in Nursing celebrates 20 years!	5
Effectiveness of an Interdisciplinary Pediatric and Neonatal Palliative Care Simulation Program in India	5
Effectiveness of Immersive Virtual Reality Simulation Programs Using Head-Mounted Displays in Promoting Physical Activity in Older Adults: A Systematic Review	5
Examination of the effect of different techniques (demonstration, telesimulation and game-based training) in teaching the management of shoulder dystocia: A randomized controlled trial	5
Effects of child abuse simulation education using a forensic nursing approach: A randomized controlled study	5
The Impact of Simulation Facilitation on Learning Outcomes – A Systematic Review Protocol	5