Simulation-Based Assessment of Critical Care “Front-Line” Providers

Objectives: Develop a standardized simulation method to assess clinical skills of ICU providers. Design: Simulation assessment. Setting: Simulation laboratory. Subjects: Residents, Critical Care Medicine fellows, acute care nurse practitioner students. Interventions: Performance scoring in scenarios from multiple Critical Care Medicine competency domains. Measurements and Main Results: Three-hundred eighty-four performances by 48 participants were scored using checklists (% correct) and holistic "global" ratings (1 [unprepared] to 9 [expert]). One-hundred eighty were scored by two raters. Mean checklist and global scores (± SD) ranged from 65.0% (± 16.3%) to 84.5% (± 17.3%) and 4.7 (± 1.4) to 7.2 (± 1.2). Checklist and global scores for Critical Care Medicine fellows and senior acute care nurse practitioner students (Experienced group, n = 26) were significantly higher than those for the Novice acute care nurse practitioner students (Novice group, n = 14) (75.6% ± 15.6% vs 68.8% ± 21.0% and 6.1 ± 1.6 vs 5.4 ± 1.5, respectively; p

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