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Bethany Cieslowski1, Tanya Haas
1About the Authors Bethany Cieslowski, DNP, CHSE, RN, is an associate professor, George Mason University School of Nursing, Fairfax, Virginia. Tanya Haas, DNP, RN, is an assistant professor, George Mason University School of Nursing. For more information, contact Dr. Cieslowski at bcieslow@gmu.edu .
Abstract:
The development of critical thinking and decision-making skills is essential to link knowledge to practice in prelicensure nursing education. Immersive virtual reality (VR) is a teaching modality that provides students with an interactive way to develop their knowledge and skills. Faculty at a large mid-Atlantic university developed an innovative strategy to deploy immersive VR in a senior-level advanced laboratory technologies course with 110 students. Implementation of this approach to VR was intended to augment clinical learning in a safe learning environment.
