Simulation-Based Interprofessional Education Guided by Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory

Communication and collaboration skill mastery is as essential to nursing practice as expertise in clinical skills. Health profession graduates often lack the necessary communication skills to practice in a collaborative environment because they have been educated in silos with little or no interaction with other health profession students. Prelicensure interprofessional education has been suggested as a strategy for improving communication and collaboration among health profession students. Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory can be used to guide simulation-based interprofessional education, offering both a foundation and process for knowledge acquisition based on the needs of each individual learner. (C) 2014 International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.