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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The Use of Simulated Participant and Virtual Reality Simulation to Enhance Nursing Students’ Communication Skills in “End of Life Care” - A Single-Arm Repeated Measures Study	299
Practical Suggestions to Align with Standards: Findings from Endorsement Reviewers	190
Virtual Reality Simulation's Influence on Nursing Students' Anxiety and Communication Skills With Anxious Patients: A Pilot Study	161
Pioneering the Australian Academic Electronic Medical Records (AAeMR) Program Prototype to Enhance Nursing Students' Readiness for Practice: A Cohort Study	145
Learning the Language of Debriefing: Insights from Expert Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners	114
Global Consensus Statement on Simulation-Based Practice in Healthcare	72
Robotic Telepresence and Face-to-Face Collaborative Nursing Simulation: A Correlational, Cross-Sectional Study	50
Mediating Effects of Cognitive Load on the Relationship Between Learning Flow and Clinical Reasoning Skills in Virtual Simulation Learning	44
The Impact of Simulation and Senior Practicum on Graduating Senior Nursing Student's Readiness for Practice	43
A Practical Model for Experiential Distance Learning	36
Does the Focus of Psychological Safety in Clinical Simulation Research Hinder the Development of Simulation Science?	34
Cognitive Dissonance of Students Between Falls Prevention Evidence and Strategies	34
Holistic Patient Assessment in Simulated Clinical Experiences	28
Using Self-debrief After a Virtual Simulation: The Process	26
Effectiveness of Self-Directed Small-Group-Learning Against Self-Directed Individual-Learning Using Self-Instructional-Video in Performing Critical Emergency Procedures Among Medical Students in Malay	26
“Doctor, please”: Educating Nurses to Speak Up With Interactive Digital Simulation Tablets	26
The Effect of Standardized Patient use in Teaching Preoperative Care Practices on Students' Knowledge, Skills, and Anxiety in Clinical Practice	25
Exploring Cognitive Biases and Clinical Reasoning During Simulation With BScN Students	25
Enhancing Cultural Capabilities Amongst Health Professions Students: A Pilot Study of Interprofessional Tag Team Simulation	25
Usability, Engagement, Learning Outcomes, Benefits and Challenges of Using a Mobile Classroom Response System During Clinical Simulations for Undergraduate Nursing Students	24
Using Audio-Visual Simulation to Elicit Nursing Students’ Noticing and Interpreting Skills to Assess Pain in Culturally Diverse Patients	23
Short term effects of simulation training on stress, anxiety and burnout in critical care health professionals: before and after study	21
Teaching Home Telehealth Nursing: Filling the Gap Though Clinical Simulation	20
A New Chapter in Clinical Simulation in Nursing	20
Learning to Manage De-escalation Through Simulation: An Exploratory Study	20

A Scaffolded Simulation Curriculum: Translating Simulation with Standardized Patient Encounters into Clinical Practice for Nurse Practitioner Students	20
Psychological Safety in Simulation and Psychological Intrinsic Factors Among Korean Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Cross-Sectional Study	19
Using Simulation to Develop Clinical Reasoning Skills for Registered Practical Nurses New to Acute Care	19
Creative Solutions for Complex Circumstances: The Utilization of Virtual Reality in a Specialty Course	18
Determination of skill and knowledge requirements of an instrument nurse working in major vascular surgery for the development of a virtual reality training tool	18
Interprofessional Simulation for Understanding Poverty	17
The Effect of a Geriatric Simulation-enhanced Interprofessional Education on Health Profession Students	17
New Nurse Self-assessed Clinical Competence, Immersion, and Attitudes Following Virtual Reality Training on the Assessment of Pediatric Respiratory Distress	17
Adapting a Distraction and Interruption Simulation for Safe Medication Preparation: An International Collaboration	17
Using a Telehealth Simulation to Prepare Nursing Students for Intraprofessional Collaboration	17
Congratulations to Our Article of the Year Winners for 2023	16
Are Artificial Intelligence Virtual Simulated Patients (AI-VSP) a Valid Teaching Modality for Health Professional Students?	16
A Systematic Scoping Review and Textual Narrative Synthesis of Undergraduate Pediatric Nursing Simulations: What, Why, and How?	16
Family and community nursing: The use of an unfolding simulation via zoom	15
Psychometric Properties of the Revised DML Evaluation Scale: A New Instrument for Assessing Debriefers	15
Feasibility and Acceptability of Virtual Escape Room Simulations for Novice Anesthesia Learners in Augmented vs. Virtual Reality	15
Designing a Virtual Simulation Game as Presimulation Preparation for a Respiratory Distress Simulation for Senior Nursing Students: Usability, Feasibility, and Perceived Impact on Learning	15
The Effect of Mixed Reality-based HoloPatient in Problem-based Learning Contexts	15
Comparing the Learning Effectiveness of Three Virtual Simulation Tools With Nursing Students During the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic	14
Nursing Students’ Experience of Using HoloPatient During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A Qualitative Descriptive Study	14
Creating an Asynchronous Telehealth Simulation for Advance Nursing Practice Students	14
Simulated Based Dementia Training: Impact on Empathic Understanding and Behaviour Among Professionals and Carers	14
Using Simulation to Teach Intraprofessional Telehealth Communication	14
An Innovative Teaching Modality to Promote Proficient Gender-Affirming Care	14
Interprofessional Simulation Education and Nursing Students: Assessing and Understanding Empathy	13
2024 to 2027 Research Priorities continue to mirror INACSL's core values	13
Value of Simulating Holistic Nursing Care: A Quantitative Study	13
Closing the gap: Using simulation to improve public health clinicians’ affirming beliefs and behaviors with LGBT clients	13
Learning With Laughter: Implementing Engaging Virtual Simulation During the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
Impacts of Standardized Patients as a Teaching Tool to Develop Communication Skills in Nursing Education: A Mixed-Studies Systematic Review	12
Nailing the Diagnosis: Using Screen-Based Simulation to Improve Factors of Diagnostic Reasoning in Family Nurse Practitioner Education	12
Advancing Healthcare Simulation Through Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Exploring Innovations	12
Enhancing emergency nurses' competence in identifying and reporting child abuse and neglect through simulation-based training	12
Professionalism and communication simulation for freshman pre-nursing students	12
The Impact of Prebriefing on Simulation Learning Outcomes – A Systematic Review Protocol	12
Evolution of simulation scholarship: A text mining exploration	12
Assessing Competency: An Integrative Review of The Creighton Simulation Evaluation Instrument (C-SEI) and Creighton Competency Evaluation Instrument (C-CEI)	11
Effectiveness of high-fidelity clinical simulation in cardiopulmonary resuscitation training: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trials	11
Self-Debriefing After Virtual Simulation: Measuring Depth of Reflection	11
Medication safety simulation training for anesthesia professionals	11
Mind the Gap! A Strategy to Bridge the Time Between Simulation and Debriefing	11
Child Nursing Simulation Scenario Content Analysis: A Directed Qualitative Content Analysis	10
The Impact of Low Fidelity Simulation on Nurse Competence in Active Management of Third Stage of Labor: An Intervention Study in Primary Health Care Settings in Tanzania	10
Cultivating Inclusivity: A Pilot Study Utilizing Simulation-Based Approaches for Weight Bias Mitigation	10
Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best PracticeTM Prebriefing: Preparation and Briefing	10
Transitioning Undergraduate Maternal-Newborn and Pediatric Hospital Clinical Experience to Immersive Simulation-Based Education	10
Relationship between Health Literacy and Simulation Learning in Korean Nursing Students	9
Comparative study on the effects of role changes in simulation training among Korean nursing students	9
Understanding Nursing Student Choice in Completion of Presimulation Activities	9
Inclusion of Advanced Practice Providers in Simulation-Enhanced Interprofessional Education	9

Enhancing graduate nursing and social work students’ collaboration through screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment and simulated education	9
Relationships Between Internal Factors, Social Factors and the Sense of Presence in Virtual Reality-Based Simulations	9
Development and Evaluation of a Metric-based Clinical Simulation Procedure for Assessing Ostomy Care in Nursing Practice	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
The Missing Link: Cognitive Apprenticeship as a Mentorship Framework for Simulation Facilitator Development	8
Effect of Non-Immersive Virtual Reality Simulation on Type 2 Diabetes Education for Nursing Students: A Randomised Controlled Trial	8
The effectiveness of 3D cadaver simulation learning on the perceived learning achievement, satisfaction, and flow state of nursing students	8
Clinical judgment, person-centered care and professionalism: A transmodal ordered network analysis of student performance in virtual patient simulations	8
Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best PracticeTM Professional Integrity	8
Utilisation, Application and Effectiveness of Metaverse in Simulation-Based Nursing Education: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Systematic Review	8
Corrigendum to NLN Jeffries Simulation Framework for Simulated Participant Methodology; Clinical Simulation in Nursing 42 (2020) 12–21	8
Low resource, high impact: Just-in-time training toolkit in response to a public health crisis	8
Context Matters: Factors Affecting Implementation of Simulation Training in Nursing and Midwifery Schools in North America, Africa and Asia	8
Evaluation of Anxiety and Self-Confidence Among Baccalaureate Nursing Students Post Pandemic Simulation Exercise	8
Corrigendum to “Effect of High Fidelity Simulation on Perceptions of Self-Awareness, Empathy, and Patient-Centered Care among University Pediatric Nursing Classes” [Clinical Simulation in Nursing 56C	8
Re-Examining interprofessional simulation: Using social identity theory to explore the influence of ‘profession’ on interprofessional learning	8
An Update on the Most Influential Nursing Simulation Studies: A Bibliometric Analysis	7
The Use of Simulation for Clinical Nursing Faculty Orientation: A Multisite Study	7
Effects of Simulation-based Scrub Nurse Education for Novice Nurses in the Operating Room: A Longitudinal Study	7
High Fidelity Simulation Modalities in Preregistration Nurse Education Programs: A Scoping Review	7
Development and Evaluation of a Wearable Simulator System	7
Expanding Clinical Education During a Time of Crisis: Innovative Virtual Simulation	7
Simulations with Standardized Patients for Nursing Students in Preparation for Clinical Placements in Mental Health Care	7
Utilizing Nursing Students for a Complex Role-Play Simulation	7
Simulated Placements as Partial Replacement of Clinical Training Time: A Delphi Consensus Study	7
Undergraduate Nursing Education and End-of-Life Simulation: A Scoping Review	7
Clinical Judgment in Nursing Students After Observation of In-Class Simulations	7
Effect of Working with a Standardized Pediatric Patient on the Skills of Nursing Students in Preparing Children for a Medical Procedure	7
Generic Crew Resource Management Training to Improve Non-technical Skills in Acute Care—Phase 1: An Interdisciplinary Needs Assessment Survey	7
Using Simulation-Based Education to Teach Interruption Management Skills: An Integrative Review	7
Interprofessional Learning for Nursing Students during a Mass Casualty Incident Simulation	7
The Long-Term Transferability of Clinical Judgment Via In-Class Simulations to Nursing Practice: A Qualitative Descriptive Study	7
The Effect of Augmented Reality Applications on Intravenous Catheter Placement Skill in Nursing Students: A Randomized Controlled Study	7
Competency-based Evaluations in Undergraduate Nursing Simulation: A State of the Literature	7
The Impact of the Simulation Debriefing Process on Learning Outcomes – An Umbrella Review Protocol	6
SimCapture for Skills®: Mobile-based web skills training for undergraduate nursing students: A randomized clinical trial	6
Development of Simulation-Based Assessment for Pediatric Intensive Care Nurse Orientation	6
Experiencing Empathy Through A Polypharmacy Simulation Experience in Baccalaureate Nursing Education	6
Bringing Next Generation NCLEX-RN Case Studies to Life through Simulation: Enhancing Prelicensure Nursing Students’ Clinical Judgment	6
Learning technical skills in simulation: Shared training for medical students and advanced practice nurses	6
Novice and Expert Nurses’ Eye Movements and Success With Simulated Peripheral Intravenous Catheterization	6
Effects of Peer-led Debriefing on Cognitive Load, Achievement Emotions, and Nursing Performance	6
Examining the Effectiveness of a Simulation Training Program on Enhancing Nursing Students' Efficacy About Managing Nonphysical Violence	6
Augmented Reality (AR) as a Prebrief for Acute Care Simulation	6
Promoting Fair Evaluation of Learning During Clinical Simulation: Knowing Yourself, Your Team, and Your Tool	6
Person-first Language in Healthcare: The Missing Link in Healthcare Simulation Training	6
Ethical Considerations in Reporting Simulation-Based Education Research	5
Effectiveness of In-situ Simulation on Clinical Competence for Nurses: A Systematic Review	5
Experiences of Paediatric End-of-Life Simulation in Undergraduate Children's Nursing Students: A Qualitative Study	5
Exploring Debriefing Modalities in Healthcare Simulation: Self-Reflection, Self-Debriefing, Tele-Debriefing and Facilitated Debriefing	5
Using Standardized Patient Simulations in the Nursing Curriculum to Promote Culturally Sensitive LGBTQ+ Care: A Pilot Study	5
Improving Management of Absconsion in Forensic Mental Health Through Simulation-Based Education	5
Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) for High-Stakes Assessment of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesiologists (CRNAs)	5
Dementia Simulation Impact on Empathy of Nursing and Physical Therapy Students: A Quantitative Study	5
Does Clinical Simulation Learning Enhance Evidence-Based Practice? A Quasi-Experimental Study Involving Nursing Students	5
Unexpected Death of a Mannequin: A Mixed Methods Pilot Study on Relationships of Stress, Anxiety, and Resilience on Learning Outcomes	5
Virtual Immersion into a Poorly-Managed Medical Crisis Worsens Subsequent Performance: A Randomized, Controlled Trial	5
A DEI Call to Action: Racial Equity in Simulation Leadership Beginning the Conversation	5
Implementation and Evaluation of a Virtual Reality-Based Cognitive Assessment and Rehabilitation Simulation Course in Undergraduate Nursing Students: A Pre-Post Study	5
Understanding Mixed-Methods in Healthcare Simulation Research: Scope and Limitations	5
Effectiveness of Debriefing for Meaningful Learning (DML) Combined with Empathy Map on Prelicensure Nursing Students’ Competency: A Quasi-Experimental Study	5
How MASK-ED™ (KRS Simulation) Prepares Nursing Students for Clinical Placements – A Cross-sectional Study	5
Reflective Journaling to Promote Critical Reflective Thinking Post-Simulation-Based Education	5
Evaluation of a Low-Cost Hybrid Airway Model to Train Nurse Anesthesiology Students in the Performance of Ultrasound-Guided Cricothyrotomy	5
Screen-Based Simulation as a Novel Recertification Tool for Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists	5
Publisher's Note	5
Evaluating Efficacy and Usability of Screen-Based Simulation in Difficult Airway Algorithm Training for Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesiologists	5
Clinical Simulation to Evaluate Students' Intraprofessional Telehealth Skills Between Multiple University Campuses	5
Telehealth Virtual Simulation for Community Health Nursing Students	5
A Longitudinal and Repeated Cross-sectional Study on the Effectiveness of the Transition of Clinical Teaching from Traditional to Simulation Era	5
Nursing Students’ Acceptance of an Online Computer-based Simulation System Utilizing the Technology Acceptance Model	5
Rapid Visual Search Games and Accuracy of Students' Clinical Observation Skills: A Comparative Study	5
The Effectiveness of Emotional Intelligence-Driven End-of-Life Care Simulation for Nursing Students	5