Virtual Reality Clinic Room 1.0
In this project, we designed and developed a 3D virtual interactive environment to help 1st-year nursing students take the patient encounter training, which is part of the Introduction to Nursing course curriculum in a nursing school.
In order to understand (1) how well nursing students can perform the patient encounter in the 3D virtual interactive environment, and (2) how to use 3D virtual interactive technology to improve nursing students’ performance in a real, physical patient encounter test, we proposed questions:
- How does a 3D virtual interactive experience affect 1st-year nursing students’ conversation skills performance for their first in-person patient encounter training?
- How do responses from the virtual patient affect students’ question construction, hence, influencing their conversation skills performance?
This project is a collaboration between the TELL lab and the Russell D. & Mary B. Shelden Clinical Simulation Center.
More research and clinical projects to come
