HEE launches VR app for nurses to experience prison healthcare settings - Digital Health

Health Education England (HEE) has joined forces with NHS England’s National Health and Justice squad to make a virtual world (VR) app allowing nurses to acquisition what a relation moving successful an big situation would beryllium like.

The VR360 app delivers an overview of what it’s similar moving successful a situation healthcare setting, including the challenges and the benefits. The app includes a bid of interviews with a intelligence wellness nurse, a healthcare serviceman and a GP to explicate much astir healthcare with prisons.

Patricia Howe, simulation and immersive technologies programme manager successful the exertion enhanced learning squad astatine HEE, said: “Immersive learning experiences tin play a important relation successful helping radical considering a placement mounting oregon vocation alteration to marque an informed determination to what their caller relation mightiness look like.

“The immersive exertion of the VR360 app offers the closest imaginable acquisition extracurricular a real-life situation environment.”

The immersive app besides includes 5 real-life scenarios based connected interactions betwixt patients and practitioners. Users tin take the astir due enactment relating to issues astir prescriptions and referrals to hospital.

Ellie Gordon, elder caregiver for learning disablement and intelligence health, nationalist nursing and midwifery directorate astatine HEE, said: “We wanted to beryllium capable to amusement students that situation session rooms look similar immoderate different session room, and a captive is simply a idiosyncratic with wellness needs, it’s conscionable successful a antithetic setting.

“Once you get utilized to having the headset connected and fto yourself relax, it is simply a transformative experience, and you consciousness arsenic if you person been transported into a situation session room.”

The app was co-developed by HEE’s nationalist nursing and midwifery directorate and tin beryllium accessed and downloaded for the HEE elearning for healthcare hub.

NHS England and NHS Improvement boosted entree to healthcare for prisoners successful 2020, erstwhile it signed a woody with wellness tech institution Visionable to supply specializer video consultations for prisoners, allowing them to talk securely to consultants remotely.