Simulation
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BYU Undergraduates Present at American Psychiatric Nursing Association Conference
BYU Nursing students Catherine Wendel and Grace Edwards stood in front of nursing professionals from across the country at the American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) annual conference in October 2025. They presented on the implementation of a multi-patient, team psychiatric simulation for undergraduate students here at BYU College of Nursing.
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Understanding Barriers to Care: BYU Nursing’s Poverty Simulation
On February 2 and 9, BYU nursing students participated in the annual poverty simulation. The simulation is designed to help students better understand the challenges and compounding stressors that people in poverty experience.
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An Hour in Their Shoes: How Poverty Simulations Are Shaping Compassionate Nurses
The College of Nursing recently carried out the annual Poverty Simulation, giving students an increased understanding of the day-to-day difficulties poverty brings individuals and families
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Fall 2023 Biannual Mass Casualty Incident Drill
This semester’s MCI was a simulated mass shooting staged on Saturday, Nov. 4 in the Marriott Center.
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The Mega Code Bootcamp Experience
Last month, the fifth-semester Intensive Care Unit (ICU) students started a new Mega Code Bootcamp. They spent 4 hours in the Mary Jane Rawlinson Geertsen Nursing Learning Center (NLC) where they responded to emergency scenarios.
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Recap of the Fall 2022 MCI
Read how nurses and the BYU Community respond during a mass casualty incident drill.
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New Psych Simulations
During semester five at the College of Nursing at Brigham Young University, nursing students learn about psychiatric nursing and participate in simulations that help expose them to various concepts within psychiatric nursing. This semester, the professors of psychiatric nursing created two new simulations for the students.
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