NURS FPX 6112 Assessment 4 Implementation Plan for a New Simulation Product

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Capella University

FPX 6112

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Implementation Plan for a New Simulation Product

My name is _____, hi, everyone. Sentinel U is the topic of the current presentation, which is a virtual simulation that can be used to assist a nursing student in gaining an opportunity to practice his/her clinical reasoning and decision-making as well as apply theoretical knowledge. Application of Sentinel U will then enable nursing students to be taught how to examine patients, administer drugs, and learn about the effects of the disease on the human body before they can apply the same in a clinical setting. This presentation shall discuss the need to have such a technology, how the technology can be incorporated in the existing nursing programs, what advantages of using the technology should be expected, how the effectiveness of the technology can be measured, and a rough timeline of how an effective process of implementing the technology into an existing nursing program can be carried out.   

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Overview of the Technology

Sentinel U virtual-simulation platform is an online simulation of the experience of working with real patients, which is presented to the nursing students in interactive settings. Students will be required to diagnose patients with the help of a video of a virtual patient; have access to the patient’s medical history; analyze laboratory data; choose care delivery strategies; treat the patient and receive feedback on the reasoning process. Basically, students will be subjected to physical examination, pharmacology, and pathophysiology and be able to think critically and practice evidence-based practice. Sentinel U is a virtual reality technology and therefore can be accessed via various devices, so students are able to complete simulation exercises from a remote location. This means that Sentinel U is a solution that can be used both in traditional and online nursing programs (Kiegaldie and Shaw, 2023). In addition to this, Sentinel U has offered faculty members detailed analytics of the performance of the students in order to assess their performance and identify any knowledge gaps and provide them with personalized feedback. Each student will have undergone the same clinical simulations using standardized simulations irrespective of the differences in his/her clinical placements.

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Addressing the Educational Gap

The use of technology in Nursing Education is an integral component that helps to bridge the gap between the theoretical knowledge regarding disease, pharmacology and evaluation within the classroom and the application of the same concepts in decision making in a clinical environment. Clinical experience and laboratory simulations are not always easy for nursing students to access in order to keep practicing and executing their skills from theory to practice. As a way to bridge this gap, Sentinel U will help nursing students with virtual patients that will enable them to put their knowledge into practice and apply their clinical reasoning with immediate feedback (Brandeggen et al., 2025). This will be beneficial since nursing students will become more confident and competent in caring for actual patients through linking the theory with practice.

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Needs Assessment

Based on assessments, nursing students encounter problems with bridging theory with clinical skills. Numerous nursing students are unable to decide clinically, treat patients, or diagnose disease progression when attending to patients in emergency cases (Gholipour et al., 2025). The use of high-fidelity manikin experiences is expensive and requires repetition, and faculty cited a lack of access to simulation laboratories, scheduling, and the cost of simulation laboratories. More opportunities are required to allow students to train their clinical reasoning in a low-risk and safe setting to enable them to make mistakes without compromising the safety of the patient. This conclusion suggests that there is a need to come up with a virtual simulation platform that can be implemented on a larger scale, such as Sentinel U.

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Necessity and Potential Impact of Sentinel U

Sentinel U will be required to offer learning clinical skills to students in a setting besides the usual hospital, which may not be the situation with a typical clinical placement, or even a simulation lab. By working with Sentinel U, a nurse will be able to practice various cases involving patients multiple times and receive instant feedback provided by an instructor to feel confident about their skills in making clinical decisions and raise their level of preparedness prior to the clinical rotation. This would prepare nurses better to complete clinical rotations since they would be more at ease providing care to patients and utilizing critical thinking skills. Besides boosting the degree of confidence and preparation before going into the clinical rotations, Sentinel U boosts the degree of critical thinking, which contributes to the delivery of safe care to patients (Sim et al., 2022). Sentinel U, in addition, standardizes the learning experience of all students and offers uniformity in clinical preparation of all students, thus enabling all students to possess the required competencies of professional nursing when they embark on professional practice.

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Integration Strategy

The introduction of Sentinel U in nursing courses will be in phases. Phase one will be offered in the subsequent nursing units: Fundamentals of Nursing, Health Assessment, Pathophysiology, and Pharmacology. The simulation modules will be allocated by the faculty members based on weekly objectives and topics of each course. Taking Pharmacology as an example, the student takes the simulation of a patient with heart failure made by Sentinel U; specifically, the student would be able to interpret the clinical outcome of heart failure, identify and select the working drugs applied in treating the disease, and even interpret the response of the patient to the administered drugs. Particularly, virtual reality simulation would be useful to simulate events with high risk, low frequency, which is not very common in the context of routine training and plays an important role in clinical preparedness (Dávidovics et al., 2025). The classroom learning of the students who have had the virtual patient case simulation prior to their laboratory or clinical experience will have enhanced their learning. Additionally, the Sentinel U system will be integrated with the learning management system of the school, where the faculty will be able to keep track of the involvement of the students in the simulations and generate performance and progress reports.

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Staff Training and User Preparation

To effectively roll out the project to design a simulation platform between staff/faculty and students, it is essential that there is a positive perception of the platform to all parties beforehand before beginning implementation. Subtly, the implementation process will also include simulation coordinators and educators through the use of subtle advocacy (informal social situations to face the faculty members) who may be resistant to the use of simulations (Delibalta & Daylan, 2026). The familiarization of the course introductory session and previewing the use of practice modules will also enable students to preview the usage of any of the graded simulations before they start using practice modules. During the learning process, with the help of simulations, user manuals, tutorial videos, and technical assistance, will also be able to ensure that everybody uses the technology effectively and gets the best benefits out of the learning experience.

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Benefits and Enhancements

Sentinel U provides a great variety of educational opportunities to provide students with the opportunity to continue developing in the frame of being a nurse. The platform also provides students with an opportunity to develop their critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and decision-making skills, as well as their confidence, which it does through exposure to several exposures of actual patient situations. Unlike some traditional simulation devices, which may be limited by their ability to access equipment and/or time, Virtual Sentinel U provides practice indefinitely (Ismail et al., 2024). The instant Feedback of the students aids them in reflective learning and makes them explain the strengths or weaknesses. The presentation of real patient case summaries supports the students in understanding the concepts of physical assessment, pharmacology, and pathophysiology. The skills of pharmacology are strengthened among the students through medication selection, calculating doses, adverse drug effects, as well as informing the patient of the medication. The students include pathophysiology concepts into the analyses of the disease processes, the identification of the clinical manifestations, and the correlation of the clinical manifestations with the pathophysiological changes.

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Evidence-Based Support

Numerous studies have provided a lot of evidence supporting the effectiveness of virtual simulation in nursing education, the development of clinical judgment, the development of confidence, and the development of the skills needed to make sound clinical judgment. Research indicates that nursing students experiencing virtual simulation perform better in clinical reasoning on tests than their non-simulation counterparts, and they say they feel more ready to practice in a clinical setting compared to their non-simulation counterparts (Dávidovics et al., 2025). Besides providing systematized learning experiences, which allow nursing students to experience active learning, self-reflection, and commenting on their performance in a simulated environment (Jallad, 2024). In this regard, the virtual simulation might be considered a potential supplement to the existing forms of clinical rotation and a chance to offer nursing students an opportunity to practice clinical skills with high-fidelity simulated equipment.

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Evaluation Metrics

Sentinel U will be measured in terms of the short-term and long-term outcomes. Simulation assessment scores, module completion rates, quiz scores, observations made by the faculty, and the survey of satisfaction will be taken into consideration in the short-term outcome measures. The results of the program in the long term will be gauged by student grades in terms of course, assessments of clinical performance of students, performance in NCLEX-style exams, and student self-efficacy (Miller et al., 2026). In addition to these, data will be generated through platform analytics that will indicate the student engagement rate, decision-making accuracy, and the completion rate. The monitoring will aid in demonstrating how this technology will improve the learning outcomes and the program objectives.

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Remediation and Continuous Improvement

A remediation plan offers a systematic means of ensuring that the students correct the issues discovered with the simulated experience with the patient. Where the student scores are lower than those of the competency levels, the process of remediation will involve recommending the tasks that the students have to undertake in order to improve their clinical reasoning through the activities of studies, simulation of patients, and discussions with the faculty members. The results from the simulation exercises will be useful for faculty in identifying weaknesses in the performances of the students. This will enable them to change their approaches in teaching.

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Budget and Resources

The cost of implementing the system involves recurring costs such as license cost, training of faculty and staff, technical support services, and orientation materials for students. Other costs of the installation include: IT support, installation of LMS, faculty training, instructional materials, etc. The sources of funding that can be used by institutions for implementing the systems are technology budget, academic innovation grants, or nursing program funding. At the hospital level, the total cost of installing, setting up, and staff of the virtual care program has been estimated to be $3816 per day or $1,392,840 per year (Walter et al., 2023). Even though capital funding is required for the implementation of Sentinel U, it is much cheaper compared to expanding capacity of the sim lab.

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Timeline

The project is going to take eight months to complete, whereby, two months will be used in constructing the administration approval and also in finalizing the vendor contracts and the budget allocation. Two months will be used in training of the faculty, designing of technology and integration of different platforms, 5th month will be student orientation and pilot test, 6th – 7th months will be implementation of the project in the nursing curriculum and 8th month will be evaluation of the implementation of the project for improvement. Participants can repeat steps two through six as many times as they like in 75 minutes and the repetitions will vary from one pair of students to another (Brandeggen et al., 2025). There will be periodic progress reports of the project from the academic leadership and faculty members.

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Conclusion

The integration of the sentinel U technology into the nursing curriculum will provide the necessary environment in which the learning and professional development of the students in the areas of clinical reasoning, physical assessment, pharmacology, and pathophysiology among others will be enhanced. The Sentinel U will provide an additional dimension to the conventional training that takes place in the classroom and in the field practice. It will offer easy access and the structured evidence based practice. The faculty will have to plan on how to use the platform in order to improve student performance.

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Q&A

Q: In what way does Sentinel U help in the development of clinical reasoning skills?

Q: Is it possible to substitute clinical placements or simulated high-fidelity experiences with Sentinel U?

Q: How will the performance of students be assessed?