Simulation and your Return on Investment
Running a sim lab is serious business! Imagine… You’re in charge of running and maintaining your institution’s simulation lab, complete with manikins, task trainers, and, at times, standardized patients. As part of your role, you must coordinate the schedules of all 200 nursing students and faculty for a day of simulation – not to mention […]
Embedding VR Scenarios across the Nursing Program: How the team at the University of Chester is incorporating innovative technology to meet students’ needs
Time flies – and it seems like technology is advancing at warp speed. Children growing up with this new set of technology, like Chat GPT and VR gaming, are likely to have expectations around its use in their education, as well. With that in mind as a wave of the future nursing generation, alongside the […]
Becoming the Instructor: How One (Former) Medical Student has used VR in School and in Practice
As a student in her final year of medical school, Dr. Alice Jones was introduced to virtual reality during her clinical simulations. Little did she know that her initial experience with VR would be a formative one, sparking an interest in teaching and supporting medical students through their simulation program. Now a doctor herself, Dr. […]
Bringing Faculty into the Fold: Virtual Reality and the Learn Where You Live Program
New Brunswick, Canada is a large yet rural province. Finding ways to support the healthcare needs of rural communities is a key challenge for the faculty in the nursing program at the University of New Brunswick (UNB), who have successfully incorporated virtual reality within the Learn Where You Live (LWYL) Program. The Learn Where You […]
Simulation and your Return on Investment
Running a sim lab is serious business! Imagine… You’re in charge of running and maintaining your institution’s simulation lab, complete with manikins, task trainers, and, at times, standardized patients. As part of your role, you must coordinate the schedules of all 200 nursing students and faculty for a day of simulation – not to mention […]
How to Bolster Critical Thinking in Nursing with Virtual Reality
In nursing, critical thinking is a vital and necessary skill. It’s not only critical thinking – clinical reasoning, clinical decision-making, and clinical judgment are all core components of nursing. While the nuances of these terms have been much discussed, they are all interrelated and function together as nurses observe, analyze, and take action. For example, […]
Unlocking Success in Healthcare: How VR Training Elevates Patient Care, Staff, and New Nurses
Virtual reality is a hot topic these days, particularly in healthcare education and training – and for good reason. VR scenarios are helping learners across the lifespan of their careers. From junior learners working on building foundational skills to newly licensed practitioners transitioning to practice to advanced clinicians continuing their education, there’s something there for […]
VR: Supporting & Spanning the Nursing Career
‘Tis the season! Nursing students all across the United States are getting ready for graduation, preparing to sit for the Next Gen NCLEX, and gearing up for the transition to practice. While a very exciting time, it’s certainly a transition to go from nursing student to practicing bedside nurse. New nurses need support and mentorship, […]
What to Know About Curriculum Mapping with OMS
At a time when learners are most vulnerable, learning brand new skills, in a whole new world, and likely overwhelmed, it’s the educators who are steering and guiding them along the path to being fully-fledged clinicians. As educators pioneer new waves of teaching and learning, there’s been a lot of adoption of AI-powered tech like […]
From Classroom to Clinic: Tackling the Academic Roots of the Nursing Shortage
The nursing workforce shortage continues to be a global problem. While initiatives are in place, and there is renewed attention on recruitment and retention, other factors need addressing to solve the shortage holistically. There is a clear decline in the number of students entering or applying to nursing schools in the United States and the […]