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.
Support your students in their transition to practice
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Nurses are expected to make complex decisions, which can have a huge impact on patient outcomes.
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vrClinicals provides the students with the opportunity to practice prioritization and refine their clinical judgment skills by exposing them to multiple patients in a busy hospital with interruptions and unexpected complications.
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Students can communicate with the patients, just like they would with a real patient, thereby strengthening their skills in patient communication and increasing their confidence and readiness for transitioning to practice.
How can vrClinicals for Nursing help?
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
Students will be immersed in a virtual hospital that includes the distractions and complexity of the real-world clinical setting.
Prioritize Multiple Patients
Multi-patient scenarios with 2, 3, or 4 patients focusing on prioritization and effective time management.
Improve Clinical Judgment Skills
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
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
Students will experience interruptions and evolving patient conditions, requiring them to analyze the situation and reprioritize patients.
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 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
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
A screen-based simulation app for Windows and Mac computers offers an alternative to learners that experience motion-sickness or dizziness in VR.
vrClinicals for Nursing offers:
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18 Medical-Surgical multi-patient experiences
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Leveled for use across the entire nursing curriculum
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Can be used as stand-alone or unfolding experiences
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Guided Reflection Exercises and Measurable
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Feedback to the student and instructor
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NLN-authored content aligned with NextGen NCLEX
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Compatible with Meta Quest 2, Quest 3S, and Quest 3 headsets
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Alternative screen-based app for Windows and Mac computers
Co-created with leading nursing schools’ instructors and simulation lab managers:
It was just enough urgency. I did feel the stress, that was perfect. That was exactly the right amount, and it was very similar to what you would see in clinical.
It's very exciting and it’s something that students will love. I think that they will find this a positive learning experience. It'll push them but it'll be in a way that they can make sense of it.
As related to high fidelity, it's really very much similar in that you can hear things, you can see things, you can do things, you can touch things so to speak. All those senses are virtually enhanced.
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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