The Effectiveness of Immersive Virtual Reality Simulation as an Innovative Learning Strategy for Acquisition of Clinical Skills in Nursing Education: Experimental Design
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2025-04-01
Authors
Samar Thabet Jallad
Burçin Isık
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Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers
Abstract
Background: A transformation of learning in nursing is necessary to prepare students for developing complex
clinical environments. The essential aim of clinical nursing learning is to enhance the integration of theoreti cal knowledge in the clinical environment by using various innovative strategies, such as immersive virtual
reality (VR) simulation to develop a learning process that allows students to gain knowledge and perform
skills in a visually attractive way, which enhances the quality and safety of clinical learning through repeated
exposure to educational content that supports students’ cognitive and psychomotor skills.
Objective: This study was aimed at determining the effectiveness of immersive VR simulation as a learning
strategy on the acquisition of intramuscular injection skills in nursing education and the performance level of
nursing students compared with a physical learning environment (low-fidelity simulation).
Materials and Metods: The experimental design (pre–post-test) was used among first-year nursing students
(N = 66) (control group = 33, hip model and experimental group = 33, VR simulation) of the summer semes ter of 2019–2020 in the Faculty of Nursing at Near East University in Cyprus.
Results: There is a significant difference between both groups in performance psychomotor skills scores, and
the mean was higher in the experimental group (P = 0.002) and a significantly longer period of time than in
the control group (P < 0.05).
Conclusion: Immersive VR simulation is a supplementary tool and useful teaching-learning strategy for train ing in nursing education alongside physical laboratory (hip-model and mannequin) and psychomotor skills
requiring the ordering of skill steps in teaching, and it provides realistic experiences in a safe environment
instead of the unavailability of actual customers in clinical settings.
Keywords: Virtual reality simulation, Immersive virtual reality simulation, Physical learning, Learning strat egy, Nursing education, Undergraduate students
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Jallad, S. T., & Işık, B. (2024). The Effectiveness of Immersive Virtual Reality Simulation as an Innovative Learning Strategy for Acquisition of Clinical Skills in Nursing Education: Experimental Design. Games for Health Journal.