A guide for facilitating an escape room for undergraduate nursing students

Background: Nurse educators continue to look for innovative teaching modalities to meet the needs of the Generation Z learner. Escape rooms, an interactive game where participants use clues to complete a mission and escape a room, have begun to be utilized in the educational setting. Method: A pediatric themed escape room was developed to orient the learner to pediatric nursing and to pre-pare the learner for their clinical rotation. The steps for an educator to facilitate an effective escape room are to determine the goal, write objectives, plan the scenario, gather the equipment, prepare the escape room, facilitate the scenario, and evaluate the scenario Results: A simulation escape room was an effective modality to orient the learner to a specialty clinical envi-ronment such as a pediatric setting. This successful innovation was well received by students with positive examples of application. Conclusion: A pediatric themed escape room is an innovative teaching modality to integrate into your curric-ulum to meet the needs of the Generation Z learner. (c) 2022 Organization for Associate Degree Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.