The Hong Kong Polytechnic College has not too long ago developed a digital studying system that makes use of digital actuality expertise to reinforce nursing schooling amid the continuing international pandemic.
PolyU’s Digital Hospital studying system is alleged to supply an “modern experiential method to nursing schooling”.
WHAT IT’S ABOUT
Touted to be the first-of-its-kind in Hong Kong, the VR-based studying system simulates a real-life hospital ward. With a complete of 11 video games, it gives 5 studying eventualities, particularly Scientific Practicum Orientation, Challenges of Delirium, Managing Multitasks, Prevention of Errors, and Potential Coronary heart Assault.
In line with a press launch, the system has greater than 1,200 mixtures of randomised conditions and a number of selections.
The system shows college students’ responses and selections on a tv monitor, in addition to data their interplay with their digital sufferers for evaluate functions.
Furthermore, it additionally permits lecturers to conveniently monitor college students’ progress and consider studying outcomes by utilizing recreation information and its automated evaluation perform.
WHY IT MATTERS
The analysis workforce behind Digital Hospital has designed the educational system particularly for nursing college students.
Dr Kitty Chan, a senior educating fellow at PolyU Faculty of Nursing who co-leads the analysis workforce, famous that the majority current VR studying programs are “are ability and procedure-focused, and undertake a single affected person administration setting.”
By way of Digital Hospital, college students are being educated to deal with a number of beds and concurrently deal with a number of sufferers. The system additionally generates surprising incidents and medical pitfalls to check college students’ skills in making use of their working information and in prioritising nursing duties within the midst of disruptions inside a restricted time.
“By way of the VR experiential studying, college students can enhance the delicate abilities which can be important for his or her medical apply, together with state of affairs consciousness, flexibility to deal with emergencies, in addition to choice making and communication abilities,” stated Dr Chan.
The Digital Hospital has been utilized by over 450 nursing college students since its launch in January.
Dr Justina Liu, co-research lead and affiliate professor of the identical nursing faculty, stated she hopes the Digital Hospital “can additional assist our college students grasp the abilities which can be required for medical nursing and most significantly for decreasing errors in precise medical conditions”.
She shared that they plan to include further “interprofessional and interdisciplinary parts” into the educational system sooner or later and introduce Digital Hospital to different nursing establishments throughout the Larger Bay Space.
THE LARGER TREND
Different medical establishments throughout Asia-Pacific have developed VR-based programmes to allow uninterrupted coaching amid the pandemic. Final yr, the Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, Japan unveiled its cloud-based medical schooling platform that includes Jolly Good’s Operation Cloud VR system, which gives a digital view of stay procedures via a 360-degree VR digicam.
In Australia, 4 tertiary hospitals have been utilizing Vantari VR‘s coaching platform for essential care with the goal to chop down coaching time. The identical VR startup launched late final yr a brand new right heart catheter training programme on its platform.
The National Neuroscience Institute in Singapore and VR medical content material platform Kyalio are at present collaborating to develop neurosurgery coaching modules as a part of their analysis collaboration. They goal to construct a library of at the very least 100 neurosurgery coaching modules on Kyalio, masking a various set of instances.
