Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore City, Singapore.
Nursing Education, National University Hospital, Singapore City, Singapore.
Nurs Forum. 2022 Nov;57(6):1249-1257. doi: 10.1111/nuf.12783. Epub 2022 Jul 31.
This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy, attitude, and level of confidence among nursing students as scrub nurses in a perioperative environment via virtual-reality simulation.
The advantages of virtual reality have been demonstrated to provide a safe and effective mechanism to educate and evaluate students' performances, but the use of virtual reality in perioperative nursing remained limited.
Nineteen sessions were conducted in a room equipped with virtual-reality headsets and two touch controllers. The surgical workflow of a scrub nurse was developed based on qualitative perspectives from nursing faculties and hospital clinicians working in operating theaters. A survey on the efficacy, attitude, and level of confidence among the participants was conducted after the virtual-reality simulation.
Two hundred and seven nursing students due for their clinical posting in operating theaters completed the evaluation. More than 90% of them indicated "neutral" and above in terms of efficacy, attitude, and confidence level with Cronbach's α values exceeding .90.
Virtual reality offers promising potential as an alternative clinical experience to physical simulation for nursing students to increase their efficacy, attitude, and level of confidence as scrub nurses in a perioperative environment through a standardized scenario-based digital environment.
本研究旨在通过虚拟现实模拟评估护理学生作为手术护士在围手术期环境中的效能、态度和信心水平。
虚拟现实的优势已被证明为教育和评估学生表现提供了一种安全有效的机制，但虚拟现实在围手术期护理中的应用仍然有限。
在配备虚拟现实耳机和两个触摸控制器的房间中进行了 19 次培训。手术护士的手术流程是根据护理教师和在手术室工作的医院临床医生的定性观点开发的。在虚拟现实模拟后，对参与者的效能、态度和信心水平进行了调查。
207 名即将在手术室进行临床实习的护理学生完成了评估。超过 90%的学生在效能、态度和信心水平方面表示“中立”及以上，克朗巴赫α值均超过 0.90。
虚拟现实为护理学生提供了一种有前途的替代临床体验，可以通过标准化的基于场景的数字环境提高他们作为手术护士在围手术期环境中的效能、态度和信心水平。
