Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education activity you will be able to:

1. Review the background information helpful for understanding the researchers' systematic review of the use of standardized patients as a simulation modality in nursing academia.
2. Outline the researchers' findings about how standardized patients are used as a simulation modality in nursing academia.
3. Summarize the weaknesses the researchers found in the studies they reviewed about the use of standardized patients as a simulation modality in nursing academia.