Realistic clinical simulation by videoconference as a remote teaching strategy in curricular internship during COVID-19 pandemic: an experience report

Objective: To describe the experience of using the realistic clinical simulation by videoconference as a teaching strategy in the mandatory supervised internship in the remote format with students of the 9th period of the undergraduate nursing course of a Higher Education Institution (HEI) located in Araguaina -TO during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methodology: this is a descriptive work of the type of experience report that occurred in July 2020. The proposal was due to the impossibility of face-to-face internships and the need for teacher evaluation of some skills necessary to the profession of nurses. The method was applied in one week including two videoconferences between the students and two actors characterized as patients who simulated the clinical picture of common conditions in hospitals in the region where the HEI is located. Results and Discussion: The strategy that was used as a proposal in place of the face-to-face internship proved satisfactory, because, in addition to causing an impact and deep involvement of the students with the activity, stimulated the mobilization of several competencies developed throughout the course rescuing knowledge, skills and attitudes that could be evaluated during the internship period making possible the continuity of the academic activities of the Nursing Course. Final considerations: The teaching method resulted in an excellent strategy in the current situation of the pandemic in which the student can develop a significant learning under teacher mediation from the staging of a real situation with the purpose of applying to the future reality in the world of work.