The True Cost of Nursing Turnover: Why Nurses are Resigning and What It Means for the Healthcare Industry
Nursing has seen a shift in recent years that has caused alarm – higher turnover rates, staff shortages, and an increased demand for healthcare professionals have impacted the remaining staff and patients. It’s significantly financially costly for hospitals to replace lost staff, not to mention the time and resources cost of finding a suitable replacement. […]
Oxford Medical Simulation Raises $12.6 Million in Series A Funding to Address Critical Healthcare Training Gap with Virtual Reality
Talking with a patient is one of the best ways for healthcare professionals to hone their communication skills – gathering history, explaining rationale, building rapport, or even having difficult conversations.
Using Your Voice: Communicating with Virtual Patients
Talking with a patient is one of the best ways for healthcare professionals to hone their communication skills – gathering history, explaining rationale, building rapport, or even having difficult conversations.
Changing the Face of Education: Virtual Reality in Curriculum
In healthcare education, students often must retain a hefty amount of information, and on top of that, they must build psychomotor skills they can take with them into clinical practice.
Simulation is a well-known method to begin bridging the gap between knowledge and practice, and while it certainly has a place in healthcare curricula, it also has its limitations.
Virtual Reality for Nontechnical Skills
Across industries, like healthcare and aviation, virtual, augmented, and mixed reality have been used to assess and progress technical and procedural skills from emergency medicine to pilot training.
Clinician Decision Making in Virtual Simulation
Healthcare professionals, like nurses, doctors, or occupational therapists, make an incredible number of decisions per day. In fact, nurses working in critical care actually make decisions almost every 30 seconds, adding up to about 960 decisions made in a single shift of work.
OMS for Interprofessional Team Building
Building a safe space for a working environment is imperative to interdisciplinary team success in healthcare settings. VR can be used as a way to connect the interprofessional team from any space, providing similar benefits to that of in-person team building simulations.
The Beginner’s Guide to Virtual Reality Simulation in Healthcare
Healthcare is a fast-paced, patient-centered industry. To keep pace with advancements and increasing amounts of knowledge requires continuous learning, developing new skills, and maintaining foundational skills.
The advancement of technology has made waves in the healthcare sector, and as tech continues to improve rapidly, its uses and functions evolve, as well.
Understanding and Preparing for the Next Generation NCLEX
As of April 1st of this year, the Next Generation NCLEX (NGN) is in effect!
That means new item types, cascading questions, and greater emphasis on critical thinking and clinical decision making.
Can Virtual Simulation be used for Assessment?
When you think about using virtual simulation, you likely think about scenarios that learners go through to reinforce important concepts and to practice clinical skills.