Title: Impact of Virtual Reality on Nursing Education

Proposal

Virtual reality plays a vital role in nursing education in the modern world. It is revolutionizing

the entire nursing education system as it creates nursing scenarios through simulations and the

trainee carries out and learns a range of activities such as examining the vital signs of a patient. It

is also very helpful in terms of training for handling emergencies such as dealing with a patient

having a cardiac arrest. Virtual reality has a positive impact on nursing education as it helps in

enhancing interaction between nursing staff, professors, and peers. Through virtual reality, the

trainee learns by taking an action rather than just observing. Some other major benefit of virtual

reality in nursing education includes a controlled environment and building upon relevance with

the changing technology. It is a new way of learning and moving towards better communication

and collaboration with peers. Virtual reality allows trainees to learn and develop new skills in a

protective environment and provides continuous support. Technology is playing a vital role in

improving nursing education and it will continue to play a bigger role as technology advances.

The two most important points after a detailed analysis of research articles are:

i. There is a lack of empirical research on the impact of virtual reality on nursing

education.

ii. Virtual reality makes clinical nursing exciting but there is a need to integrate

simulation-based strategies to make nursing education more interactive and useful.

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