Exploring Nursing Students’ Perceptions of a Desktop Virtual Reality Patient-Encounter Experience: A Qualitative Descriptive Study

• In Event: D&D - VR in Nursing Education

Short Description

The purpose of this research is to explore the experiences of first-year nursing students with a patient-encounter experience that was designed using desktop virtual reality (VR), and to understand their perceptions and emotions associated with these experiences. The study involved conducting semi-structured interviews with 44 first-year nursing students from a nursing school at a large Midwest university, and the results reveal the perceptions of the participants regarding their experiences.

Authors

• Contributor: Yuanyuan Gu, University of Missouri

• Contributor: Xinhao Xu, University of Missouri

• Contributor: Hao He, University of Missouri Columbia

• Contributor: Jhon Alexander Bueno Vesga, The Pennsylvania State University

• Contributor: Shangman Li, University of Missouri-Columbia

• Contributor: Jason Snyder, University of Missouri