A Computer-Based Simulation to Enhance Official Communication in the Health Care Process: How Does it Promote the Facilitating and Learning Processes?

One of the big gaps in all routine daily health care and social sector processes is poor communication. The goal of this study is to examine how to teach and enhance the use of the TETRA phone in communication. Educating a huge amount of students requires new teaching methods: Simulation-based learning provides one solution. This study answers the research questions: How does the TETRAsim® computer-based simulation program promote facilitation, training, and learning processes? How meaningful is simulation-based learning from the student’s perspective? The program was first analyzed by researchers, and a teaching experiment to test its use was organized in February 2013. Participants were 17 second-year nursing students. Data was collected using pre-, and post-questionnaires, interviews, video recordings, observations, and field notes. Data is under the analysis process; it will be analyzed using the qualitative content analyses method, and the results will be presented in the conference proceedings and during the conference presentation.