Abstract:
Nurses and nursing students have reported difficulty translating concept-based scientific knowledge into practice. This can have a significant impact on their development as a professional and on their ability to provide safe care.
A literature search has helped identify that VR technology requires a framework for best practice in understanding, implementing, and evaluating its utility when used as a teaching strategy within Nursing education. This fundamental gap in knowledge will be the basis for this authors future PhD. Despite virtual reality’s increasing popularity and documented benefits when implemented as an educational tool, there is paucity of research to depict current trends, acceptance level, use cases and benefits and challenges of implementation of VR within nursing education.
VR is known to augment traditional education through simulations and virtual experiences. It is therefore the objective of the author through an upcoming PhD to investigate how the nursing industry can best extract this innovative process and leverage the technology and aligned data, to enhance the value of nursing care.
The aim of this presentation is to present data, generate discussion and feedback on the perceptions, barriers, understand capacity building and adoption processes for VR that can support learning across the nursing profession. By working towards outlining a framework and thus developing innovative principles and strategies to engage patients, staff and collective communities as holistic partners to improve quality, safety and outcomes.
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Learning Objectives:
- Understanding immersive technologies in nursing and how they can be used to improve clinical practice.
- Learn pitfalls and advantages of transferring learning curriculum to digital formats based on new VR technologies.
- Demonstrate ROI and clinical learning / clinical practice improvement outcome opportunities of immersive technologies.