Theme
Virtual Patients and eCase Studies
Category
Virtual Patients
INSTITUTION
Dept of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Using theory anchored Vps can support nursing students understanding of scientific knowledge and development understanding about patients needs, patient care, nursing solutions and nursing interventions.
Research studies have shown that nursing students find it difficult to translate and apply their theoretical knowledge in a clinical context. Virtual patients (VPs) have been proposed as a learning activity that can support students in their learning of scientific knowledge and help nursing students integrate theory and practice. Since most reported VPs aimed at the medical curricula, there is a need to investigate how to model VPs for nursing education.
Virtual Patient Nursing Model (VPNM)
We investigated how the VP model supported nursing students' understanding of scientific knowledge and training in clinical reasoning.
Virtual Patientss adapted to the nursing paradigm can support nursing students development of clinical reasoning skills in nursing.
We would like to acknowledge the help and support of the students, researcher, teacher and administrators for help and participants’ in this study. We also want to gratefully acknowledge the The Perioperative Interactive Education (PIE) group for kindly providing the use and translation of the virtual Interactive patient system (VIC).
Five VPs were created and implemented in the undergraduate nursing education at Karolinska Institutet.
The evaluation showed that the students perceived VPs as an appropriate learning activity to support the development of their clinical reasoning.
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