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Achieve the clinical outcomes you need with virtual reality

vrClinicals for Nursing is a unique VR solution that helps students build measurable competence in clinical judgment, allowing them to practice effective time management, prioritization of patients, delegation, and communication with patients while caring for multiple patients in a busy, hospital setting with interruptions and evolving patient conditions. Aligned with the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model, vrClinicals has been developed as a collaboration between Laerdal, Wolters Kluwer Health, and the National League for Nursing.

This is an amazing virtual reality product to help nursing students at all levels hone prioritization and clinical judgment skills.

- Melody Bethards, EdD, MSN, RN, CNE, CHSE-A. Nursing faculty and simulation coordinator, Des Moines Area Community College

How can vrClinicals for Nursing help?

  • I am a Sim Lab Director
  • I am a Faculty member
  • I am a Nursing Student
  • I am a Dean

I am a Sim Lab Director

Save time and resources on multiple patient simulation setup! vrClinicals gives you flexibility and simplifies the preparation and facilitation of the engaging clinical experiences your students need, enabling you to free up resources and achieve higher throughput.

I am a Faculty member

No need to recreate or modify content: it is co-developed with National League for Nursing to ensure relevance and medical accuracy. vrClinicals is solution you need to efficiently teach clinical judgment, multi-patient prioritization skills and communication with patients, as well as ensure maximum knowledge retention. The scenarios are standardized, so learning outcomes can be measured. It also helps you understand and debrief student’s rationales for making decisions.

I am a Nursing Student

Get the most out of your studies in a virtual environment where mistakes are allowed and feedback is given so that you feel competent and confident in your clinical judgment skills, your ability to prioritize patients and manage time effectively, and in communicating with patients. The self-reflection exercises and measurable feedback will help you take a step back and reflect on how you can become an even better nurse. Overall, vrClinicals can help to ease your transition to practice.

I am a Dean

Increase your school’s reputation in developing competent and confident nurses, through easy virtual clinicals that don’t add to faculty burden and focus on developing the clinical judgment, prioritization, and communication skills necessary for today’s low-staffed hospitals.

Better Prepare Nurses with vrClinicals for Nursing

Dr. Susan Forneris, the Director of the Department of Innovation in Education Excellence at the National League for Nursing, and Dr. Michelle Moulton, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University, respectively, explain the game-changing potential for vrClinicals for Nursing. Listen how they believe in its ability to better prepare nurses and close the gap areas for nursing transition into practice.

vrClinicals for Nursing Benefits

  • Fully Immersive & Realistic
  • Prioritize Multiple Patients
  • Improve Clinical Judgment Skills
  • Communicate with Patients through Conversational AI
  • Manage Interruptions & Complications
  • Delegate Tasks & Practice Interprofessional Collaboration
  • Reflection Exercises & Automated Feedback
  • Resource-Effective & Space-Optimized
  • Alternative Screen-based Version

Fully Immersive & Realistic

fully immersive and realistic nursing station

Students will be immersed in a virtual hospital that includes the distractions and complexity of the real-world clinical setting.

Prioritize Multiple Patients

prioritize multiple patients

Multi-patient scenarios with 2, 3, or 4 patients focusing on prioritization and effective time management.

Improve Clinical Judgment Skills

improve clinical judgement

Aligned with the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model, students are required to recognize and analyze cues in handover reports, electronic health records, and assessments. They will prioritize hypotheses, generate solutions, take action, and reevaluate patients.

Communicate with Patients through Conversational AI

Communicate with Patients through Conversational AI

Students can practice patient communication by directly speaking with the virtual patients. A large language model-based artificial intelligence will make the patients respond as a human would.

Manage Interruptions & Complications

Manage Interruptions & Complications

Students will experience interruptions and evolving patient conditions, requiring them to analyze the situation and reprioritize patients.

Delegate Tasks & Practice Interprofessional Collaboration

Delegate Tasks & Practice Interprofessional Collaboration

Students need to consider effective time management, including whether to do a task themselves or delegate to an unlicensed assistive person or another RN. They can also call a colleague such as the provider. 

Reflection Exercises & Automated Feedback

Reflection Exercises & Automated Feedback

Reflection exercises prompt students to reflect on their experience, and automated feedback and scoring helps them understand opportunities for improvement and provides an easy way for faculty to measure the growing competence of their students.

Resource-Effective & Space-Optimized

Resource-Effective & Space-Optimized

With a fully self-guided simulation experience, vrClinicals is instructor-light. In addition, its teleportation feature minimizes the space needed for each student.

Alternative Screen-based Version

Alternative screen-based version

A screen-based simulation app for Windows and Mac computers offers an alternative to learners that experience motion-sickness or dizziness in VR.

Co-created with leading nursing schools’ instructors and simulation lab managers:

Help your students think and train like a nurse – use
vrClinicals in a scaffolded approach

vrClinicals can be used as one component of a more comprehensive solution to further enhance clinical skills training for better preparedness of nurses.

 

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