High fidelity simulated learning is well established within pre-registration nursing curricula. Currently this learning approach focuses on nursing within clinical skills suites which simulate the ward environment. Learning within the simulation environment not only allows students the opportunity to practice and develop their clinical skills but it also provides an environment which allows them to “make mistakes”. There are limited examples of this approach in preparing students for community placements. The result is that students are unprepared for the challenges of delivering care in the home and struggle with fundamental issues such as how to act when visiting a patient in their own home. The development of simulated community clinical scenarios was as a result of a desire to address some of these issues.
