Wright Renée R, Tinnon Elizabeth A, Newton Rebecca H
Author Affiliations: York College, City University of New York, Jamaica (Dr Wright); and College of Nursing, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg (Drs Tinnon and Newton).
Comput Inform Nurs. 2018 Feb;36(2):84-89. doi: 10.1097/CIN.0000000000000388.
Virtual simulation technology is the next step in using simulation as an accepted teaching-learning pedagogy in nursing. The purpose of this multisite, quasi-experimental, three-group, posttest-only design was to evaluate the effectiveness and participant satisfaction of vSim for Nursing in an Adult Health Nursing course. Although the quantitative findings (examination scores and postsimulation scores) were not statistically significant, participants overwhelmingly found vSim for Nursing to be a positive experiential learning endeavor. Ninety-one percent of the participants (n = 61) indicated that vSim for Nursing helped them understand adult health concepts and that vSim for Nursing was beneficial to learning. vSim for Nursing warrants further investigation, using other methods to measure effectiveness to ascertain whether knowledge acquisition is indeed improved as indicated by participant data in this study.
虚拟仿真技术是将仿真作为护理领域公认的教学方法的下一步发展方向。本多中心、准实验、三组、仅后测设计的目的是评估成人健康护理课程中护理虚拟仿真软件（vSim for Nursing）的有效性和参与者满意度。尽管定量研究结果（考试成绩和模拟后成绩）在统计学上不显著，但参与者绝大多数认为护理虚拟仿真软件是一次积极的体验式学习尝试。91%的参与者（n = 61）表示，护理虚拟仿真软件帮助他们理解成人健康概念，且对学习有益。护理虚拟仿真软件值得进一步研究，采用其他方法来衡量其有效性，以确定知识获取是否如本研究中的参与者数据所示确实得到了改善。
