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Exploring The Usability Of Game-Based Virtual Reality For Development Of Procedural Skills In Undergraduate Nursing Students, Ann Louise Butt

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

Providing safe, high quality patient care requires that undergraduate nursing students learn and apply extensive content knowledge as they also begin to develop clinical judgment. Nursing students must learn several procedural skills and be ready to remember and competently perform these skills when the need arises during patient care. Some procedures require strict adherence to aseptic technique in order to protect patients from hospital-acquired infections. Consequently, nurse educators are challenged to find innovative and interactive ways to help students develop and remember these important fundamental skills while ensuring patient safety.

This study used a mixed methods design to explore the …