Guzel V. Lashina

There is an urgent need for highly professional medical specialists today including those with communicative competences in the context of rapid development of innovative medical technologies. It is obvious that nurses should develop their professional competences throughout their career in order to maintain and improve their professional authority. Development of professional practical skills and abilities as well as communicative and leadership qualities of a nurse requires particular attention. Since the process of developing and retaining communicative competences with the use of simulation technologies does not progress at the stage of postgraduate education of nurses, introduction of simulation forms of training into additional professional programs gives an opportunity to solve the identified problem. This determines the relevance of the research project. The purpose of the article is to analyze implementation of simulation technologies in postgraduate educational programs for specialists with secondary medical education. Observation, experiment and comparison were used as empirical research methods. Conducting trainings using simulation technologies allows expanding the trajectory of modern training and gives medical personnel the right to choose the development of their competences in a simulation environment. The result of our work is an increase in the number of students with an advanced level of communicative competence at the end of the training. The advantages and disadvantages of conducting trainings using simulation technologies have been revealed based on the analysis of an anonymous survey of advanced training courses students in the specialty “Nursing”. Communication skills, along with other essential competences, proved to be professionally necessary in the mobile practice of a nurse, while the learning process should ensure continuous professional development of a medical specialist together with other forms of education. This article will be useful for researchers, specialists in medical simulation training, teachers of additional professional education, and can be used in simulation classes with students in advanced training courses aimed at developing communicative competence.