Virtual Simulations Paired With In-Person Simulations Helped Nursing Students Feel Better About Training During COVID-19

• In Event: Simulation and Clinical Reasoning

Abstract

During COVID-19, online learning formats have become more widespread and led to a greater demand for high quality virtual simulation options in nursing education. We recruited 18 nursing students to participate in a longitudinal study. Students completed questionnaires about their emotions, perceived success, and usability of a virtual simulation. Results provide evidence of (1) moderate usability of a virtual simulation in a distance learning context. (2) That combining virtual simulation with in-person simulation can improve students’ experience of positive emotions and decrease their experience of negative emotions toward successfully completing their nursing training. And (3) that students’ positive emotions about using virtual simulations are important because they are statistically significantly correlated with their virtual simulation performance score and perceived success.

Authors

• Jason Matthew Harley, McGill University

• Clarissa Hin-Hei Lau, University of Toronto

• Elif Bilgic, McMaster University

• Andrew Gorgy, McGill University

• Hugo Marchand, McGill University

• Susanne P. Lajoie, McGill University

• Mélanie Lavoie-Tremblay, University of Montreal

• Michelle Cassar, McGill University

• Gerald Fried, McGill University