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October 17, 2022

Nursing Students Enter Virtual Reality World

Students in the College of Nursing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences have a new high-tech way to learn with the addition of immersive VR to their curriculum.

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October 17, 2022 — Students in the College of Nursing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences have a new high-tech way to learn this year, with the addition of immersive virtual reality (VR) to their curriculum.

The college opened two VR learning rooms with a total of 11 workstations at the Helen Glass Centre for Nursing in September.

Kimberly Workum, director of the Clinical Competence Assessment Centre and digital strategy at the College of Nursing, said VR learning has been a vision of the college for several years, but the COVID pandemic played a role fast-tracking the platform, as it gives a more immersive learning experience than other virtual learning tools.

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