Özet:

Simulation is an interactive teaching strategy that enables participants to gain the desired knowledge, skills and attitudes by using simulator or standardized patients develop critical thinking, problem solving and decision-making skills in participants. With the development of technology, the use of simulation as a new teaching method in the field of nursing has been increasing in recent years. Geropsychiatric nursing is one of the areas of nursing where the use of simulation has been very common. Geropsychiatric nursing is a special area that blends psychiatry and gerontology nursing, and it appears as a current and developing field with the increasing elderly population in our country. In order to increase the quality of care given to elderly people with mental disorders, innovative pedagogical methods have been widely used in the geropsychiatric nursing curriculum. Simulation interventions with different methods have many benefits in terms of students, lecturers, institutions, elderly healthy/individuals with mental disorders and caregivers in the field of geropsychiatric nursing. In this review, the use of simulation in geropsychiatric nursing and the benefits of this method was explained.

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