Guide to Implementing a Student- and Faculty-Led Interprofessional Poverty Simulation

Abundant evidence supports the benefits of simulated learning. Simulations enhance students' communication and teamwork skills and expose students to situations they may not experience in clinical rotations. More specifically, research has confirmed the benefit of conducting poverty simulations with nursing and social work students from financially privileged backgrounds; these students demonstrated an enhanced structural understanding of poverty over a behavioral understanding, following simulated experiences (Noone, Sideras, Gubrud-Howe, Voss, & Mathews, 2012). This article describes the process of planning and implementing a poverty simulation.