Using Mixed Reality to Practice Difficult Conversations

Nursing educators struggle to provide consistent and impactful clinical experiences that encompass mastery of soft and hard skills throughout the curriculum, mainly due to limited clinical sites and differences across clinical agencies. An important skill set for nursing practice is effective professional and therapeutic communication, yet the opportunity for nursing students to facilitate and master effective communication in an actual clinical setting is generally missing. Nursing students safely engage in communication with assigned patients, nursing staff, and others as part of the care team, while exposure to conversing or leading complex conversations beyond rare observation between physicians, advanced practitioners and/or family is lacking.
Source: Clinical Simulation in Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: Innovations in Simulation Source Type: research