Augmented Reality in Nursing Education – A Pilot Study

Accurate physical skills are foundational for safe patient care. There are various teaching strategies employed to teach these specific skills in pre-licensure programs include: assessment of peers or standardized patients, the use of low and high-fidelity simulators, and computer-based virtual simulations (Jeffries,  2020). Recommendations have been suggested to improve nursing physical assessment education in core skills using alternative teaching approaches (Tan et al., 2021). The purpose of this pilot study was to examine the effects of using augmented reality (AR) in nursing education by comparing the pe rformance of physical assessment skills of heart, lung, and thorax assessment by nursing students who used AR with students who only participated in non-AR experiences.
Source: Clinical Simulation in Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research