Associate Professor
Seattle University College of Nursing
Bellevue, WA, United States
Diane Fuller Switzer is an Associate Professor of Nursing, Assistant AG-ACNP Program Director, and Affiliate Faculty in Initiative in Ethics and Transformative Technologies at Seattle University in Seattle, Washington. She has created and facilitated Simulation Based Learning (SBL) experiences for the Seattle University Adult Gerontology-Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AG-ACNP) program since 2015. She is committed to the integration of SBL in nurse practitioner (NP) education. She has facilitated 24 high-fidelity SBL experiences based upon her experience providing primary/emergency/critical care in a level one trauma center, critical access, disaster and remote, low resource settings globally. Common themes are “do not miss” diagnoses or “high risk, low frequency” simulations focusing on teamwork, management of emergent/critically ill conditions, and the synthesis of theoretical knowledge into clinical practice developing praxis. She has observed the development of praxis in AG-ACNP students during debriefing and reflection papers.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and crisis standards of care, she developed a simulation where students are faced with an ethical dilemma with resource allocation protocols during pandemics integrating high-fidelity with standardized patients and embedded participants. This activity required students to demonstrate objectives at the highest levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Cognitive Domains – analysis, synthesis, and evaluation – and to perform in these domains not only individually, but also as a member of a team. She is committed to the integration of ethical medical decision-making during crisis standards of care into nurse practitioner education through SBL. She is also interested in advancing the science of simulation through research and the development of standardized tools incorporating the Essentials for graduate nurse practitioner simulation competency based learning evaluations.
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Friday, June 14, 2024
9:30 AM - 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time