How Virtual Reality Creates a Safe Space for Learning
When you’re learning something new, it’s important to feel like you can freely make mistakes – and learn from them.
Multi-Patient Scenarios: A Next Step in Preparing for Practice
In the United States, recent data has shown concerning rates around readiness to practice. With 91% of assessed new-graduate nurses landing outside of the acceptable range of competency for novice nurses, it’s crucial that students preparing to graduate have realistic experiences that reflect the daily responsibilities of clinical practice.
In It To Help You Win It: OMS Customer Success
You’ve done your research, vetted your options, and chosen a VR partner, but what happens after you get started with OMS?
How OMS is Promoting Practice Readiness and Nursing Retention
In the United States, nursing turnover rates average a staggering 27%, and the healthcare system is facing a nursing shortage of up to 450,000 by 2025.
How VR Simulations are Designed: An Inside Look into the Authoring Process at OMS
When you’re in the midst of searching for a VR partner, it’s important to understand how their scenarios are built. Not all VR simulations are created equal, and you’ll likely want the scenarios you use to be grounded in evidence and current best practices.
Deliberate Practice Makes Perfect?
It was long-thought that education plus experience equals expertise, but nowadays, it’s clear that there’s more to that equation.
There’s a lot of complexity in mastering a skill and consistently performing at a high level.
Choosing Your VR Partner: A Guide
Ready to step into the wide world of virtual reality simulation but need help kicking off your search? It can feel daunting to start the process of updating or progressing an educational or training program, but with the right partner, it can feel like you’ve got a knowledgeable guide helping you to find the right solution for you.
5 Exciting Updates to OMS in 2023
As the new year kicks off, OMS is jumping right in and highlighting all the exciting new things available this year!
OMS Partner with The Big 10 on Multi-Patient VR Simulation
Big 10 Practice-Ready Nursing Initiative is a partnership between the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, University of Michigan School of Nursing and Purdue University School of Nursing. The initiative was formed to respond to the issues arising from nurse graduates being unprepared to practice in today’s highly complex and dynamic care environments.
Five Ways VR is Paving the Way for a Digital Tomorrow
While the development of virtual reality technology stretches back as far as the early 19th century, it is only in recent years that VR has started to become more widely available to the public. Since its commercial debut in mid-2010, virtual reality has been making a steady impact.