The National League for Nursing (NLN) has many visions that are part of the roadmap for the future of nursing and nursing education. My research addresses the fact that nursing students are unprepared to provide end-of-life care. My research proposal states that adding curricular content and simulations about end-of-life care will make nursing students more competent and prepared to provide end-of-life care. My research proposal closely fits within the eighth vision of the NLN’s statements which is teaching with simulation. According to this statement, simulation prepares nurses to practice in the healthcare environment. It provides a great opportunity for students to integrate practice and theory and make clinical decisions. In addition, simulation provides experiential learning and learning in context (The National League for Nursing, 2015). This is exactly what my study is about. In my study, the nursing students will attend simulations that will have end-of-life-related scenarios and they will have to do hands-on as well as practice communication with a dying patient and their family members. From the literature review that I conducted, it was evident that many nursing students do not what to do with dying patients or what to say to dying patients and their family members. One of the reasons for this lack of knowledge is the fact that many students do not have the opportunity to practice these skills. Moreover, many students do not experience these situations during their clinicals.

     According to the NLN’s statement about simulation, the goal of simulation is to provide a learning environment that copies practice situations. It is important to provide simulation due to the increasing lack of clinical placements for students. In addition, simulation experience should be practiced throughout the whole program (The National League for Nursing, 2015). Similar to this statement and vision, my study includes incorporating end-of-life simulations in different courses throughout the nursing program. Many articles that I read from the literature review clearly demonstrate that students who attended end-of-life simulations were more prepared to provide end-of-life care than students who did not attend such simulations. According to Al Khasawneh et al. (2021), simulation is becoming very popular in nursing education. The authors also state that through simulation students can practice clinical skills. In addition, simulation improves clinical decision-making in nursing students (Al Khasawneh et al., 2021). It is clear that simulation plays an important role in nursing education and student’s competency and ability to practice skills. Therefore, my study that includes the incorporation of simulation in a nursing program aligns with this NLN’s vision. 

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Al Khasawneh, E., Arulappan, J., Natarajan, J. R., Raman, S., & Isac, C. (2021). Efficacy of simulation using NLN/Jeffries nursing education simulation                       framework on satisfaction and self-confidence of undergraduate nursing students in a Middle-Eastern country.
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Research topic: Comparing pre-licensure nursing students for NCLEX pass rates between students who traditionally went to school in-person versus those who spent nursing school online with social distancing restrictions. 

NLN Vision #1: Academic Progression in Nursing Education (PDF), January 2011

NLN vision #1 essentially addresses a call to inspire academic progression. In it, they push for more nurses to move to “advanced degrees and for less cost”. My research proposal aligns with this statement because the push for more academia at a cheaper price will likely result in the utilization of distance learning (Barteit, S et al, 2020). My research seeks to address the issue of distance learning possibly not preparing pre-licensure students adequately enough for licensure. It is hoped that any insight gleaned from the proposed research could point out weaknesses in distance learning and help strengthen future curricula. This way, if distance learning is the path forward for advanced degrees at a cheaper price, then any mistakes that were made during the pandemic can be avoided.

Barteit, S., Guzek, D., Jahn, A., Bärnighausen, T., Jorge, M. M., & Neuhann, F. (2020). Evaluation of e-learning for medical education in low-and middle-income countries: A systematic review. Computers & education, 145, 103726.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2019.103726