Enhancing human skills training for student nursing associates with VR & AI at Brunel University of London

About

Goals

1. Support the development of interprofessional skills for students by embodying the human factors already taught as part of skills modules.
2. Give students an opportunity to experience real world healthcare scenarios in a psychologically safe space.

It's something new and it's something different. It keeps students engaged and focused.

Laura Read

Associate Lecturer (Education) Clinical Skills in Nursing

Deployment

Integration into the learning experience

The team at Brunel University of London plan to integrate Bodyswaps as one step in their immersive learning experience, supporting the use of their immersive learning room. They plan to have students engage with Bodyswaps’ personalised experience before going into the immersive learning room where students can work with each other in a simulated scenario.

Results

After one session of our ‘Talented Teamwork’ module:

• 78% of students would recommend Bodyswaps to their peers.
• 78% of students identified areas to improve on their teamwork skills
• 89% of students increased their understanding of teamwork & collaboration

I think where Bodyswaps differs from a traditional teaching session is it allows students to have their own pace in their learning. For example, they can revisit specific content.

And that was what we wanted to achieve: to really enable students to have a robust experience that helps them learn those critical skills.

Peter Lin

Learning Technologist (Health Sciences)

Highlights

• It’s easy for students to pick up as the integration between Bodyswaps Go and the app in the headset is very smooth.
• It really personalises the learning journey, allowing students to revisit specific learning content and practise.
• It’s easy from an admin side; managing students and their access to modules - to keep them focused while allowing them to feel they have the ability to shape their own learning.

If we were going to do role play in the classroom, it would fill a lot of students with absolute dread.

A couple of students fed back to me that they liked the idea that [Bodyswaps] was private, that they could get it wrong, they could say the wrong thing or get the answer wrong and not everyone else would know.

Nicola Bowen

Senior Lecturer in Nursing, Lead for Simulation and Skills