Sheridan Nursing Program Using VR Technology to Simulate Real-world Scenarios
As someone with extensive experience working in health care environments, Rocio Paz knows that life comes at nurses fast.
As someone with extensive experience working in health care environments, Rocio Paz knows that life comes at nurses fast.
“You aren’t just dealing with the patients, you’re dealing with their families, and you never know when something might happen,” says Paz, who has spent nearly two decades as a registration and admissions clerk at various area hospitals and clinics. “You need to know how you’re going to respond in situations like that."
Paz and other students in Sheridan’s Practical Nursing diploma program will soon be better prepared to navigate those types of fluid conditions. The program recently implemented immersive virtual reality (VR) technology into its curriculum, utilizing UbiSim software that runs on Oculus Quest 2 headsets and is designed to develop nursing students’ clinical reasoning, decision-making and communication skills.
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