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November 8, 2024

Enhancing the Intuitive Editor: Release 1.16 with New Scenarios & Features

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Ginelle Testa
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Innovative nurse educators utilize simulation to provide learning opportunities specific to the diverse needs of their communities and patient populations. The ideal simulation platform is highly customizable, simple to learn, and intuitive to use. 

UbiSim VR’s Intuitive Editor offers this essential and easy customization, meeting the need for educators to offer a variety of learning situations that mirror complex and ever-changing healthcare needs. 

Our latest release, 1.16, continues this trend with customizable scenarios, features, and updates. A key focus of this update is a new set of patient symptoms related to inflammation. Additionally, we’re introducing one new scenario and one revised scenario, both designed to challenge learners in realistic, high-pressure situations.

Learn more below, and stay tuned for this upcoming release in late November. We can’t wait for you to experience what the latest version of UbiSim has to offer.

New scenarios:

Elena Kahale - Acetaminophen Toxicity

This scenario challenges learners to address both medical and psychiatric needs, fostering skills in empathy, rapport-building, and patient safety for individuals with suicidal ideation. Nursing students integrate medical-surgical and mental health concepts, honing their ability to communicate empathetically and perform thorough assessments for patients with acetaminophen toxicity and suicidal ideation.

Possible customizations:

  • Positive pregnancy test and acetaminophen overdose OR Known pregnancy and acetaminophen overdose (intentional or unintentional)
  • Acetaminophen/paracetamol ingestion ONLY (no diphenhydramine-remove hallucinations)
  • Removal of 1:1 bedside sitter (nurse must identify unsafe suicide precautions)
  • Expressions of active suicidal ideation with a plan
  • And more!
Elena kahale in VR

Daniel Maxwell - Post-Op Hip Arthroplasty: Safe Medication Administration

In this fundamentals scenario, learners apply critical thinking and clinical decision-making by using assessment data to guide interventions, ensuring safe medication administration for a postoperative patient. They practice managing hypotension, identifying contraindications, and communicating with providers, enhancing their ability to respond to medication errors in real-world settings.

Possible customizations:

  • Routine physical assessment and bp medication administration to a normotensive patient
  • Patient has a history of heart failure and becomes hypotensive after bp medication administration
  • And more!
Daniel Maxwell in vr

New Nursing Equipment, Features & Patient Updates

Abdominal Distention

Abdominal distention is now a configurable symptom in the UbiSim Editor, enhancing scenarios involving conditions like cirrhosis, heart failure, or bowel obstruction by allowing progressive visual states of distention.

4-Quadrant Auscultation

Configurable, quadrant-specific bowel sounds are now available, allowing students to practice and validate correct abdominal assessment procedures.

Jaundice

Jaundice is now enhanced to include yellowing of the sclera along with skin manifestations, allowing instructors to create varied severity levels and unfolding cases.

jaundice on a patient in VR

Distractors

To simulate real-world distractions, UbiSim introduces practice distractors for learners to refine their reprioritization skills. Distractions or interruptions in the clinical environment can lead to poor patient outcomes, especially when preparing medications. These two features can be used to make learners aware of the impact that distractions can have on patient safety. Additionally, it may help prepare learners in developing necessary skills to deal with interruptions or frequent changes in care plans in the real world clinical setting

  • Incoming Phone Calls: Learners may choose to answer or ignore an unexpected phone call, with performance tracked based on their actions. The caller can be any persona you want to program, including a provider, lab tech, or nursing colleague.
  • Incoming New Medical Orders: New orders may populate the EHR unexpectedly, allowing educators to assess if learners respond appropriately to critical updates.
distractors in VR

Final Thoughts

In this release, we continue to expand the versatility of our Intuitive Editor, offering a more expansive platform for nurse educators dedicated to building diverse, patient-centered learning experiences. 

With these updates, we empower educators to go beyond pre-made scenarios, integrating more complex symptoms, real-world distractions, and realistic case variations that deepen clinical learning. 

We’re excited to see how nurse educators leverage these features to push simulation boundaries and meet evolving healthcare demands!

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Ginelle Testa
UbiSim Story Teller

As an integral center of UbiSim's content team, Ginelle pens stories on the rapidly changing landscape of VR in nursing simulation. Ginelle is committed to elevating the voices of practicing nurses, nurse educators, and program leaders who are making a difference.

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