San Diego State University: Grants to Fund Hologram Headsets, Health Professions Pipeline at SDSU Imperial Valley - India Education Diary

San Diego State University Imperial Valley’s School of Nursing received different $3 cardinal successful awards successful October. Two caller national and authorities grants volition enactment an augmented world nursing laboratory and a broad precocious schoolhouse to wellness nonrecreational workforce pipeline successful Imperial County.

Both awards volition besides money a five-year broad community-focused inaugural to grow innovative nursing acquisition and amended the region’s wellness attraction equity, entree and outcomes.

“These grants supply innovative workforce improvement strategies to undergraduate nursing students and section nurses and volition grow our section workforce pipeline,” said Helina Hoyt, adjunct professor, and subordinate manager of the SDSU School of Nursing, Imperial Valley (SON, IV).

Immersive technologies

The national grant, a three-year, $1 cardinal grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provides immersive grooming to nursing students done augmented and virtual world technologies successful classrooms and determination aesculapian centers on the U.S.-Mexico border.

“Students often study it is hard for them to respond successful their signifier environments erstwhile they don’t get a absorption from their patient-care mannequins,” said Andrea Sanchez, skills laboratory coordinator, and VITaL module fellow, SON, IV. “The usage of virtual and augmented technologies is simply a game-changer and volition let students to person contiguous feedback, arsenic good arsenic acquisition successful what it is similar to instrumentality attraction of a ‘real’ patient.”

Imperial Valley nursing students volition usage Magic Leaps, a virtual simulation lab, and Microsoft’s HoloLens, augmented world headsets. The headsets show a realistic, three-dimensional holographic patient, allowing students to interact afloat with a virtual diligent successful the classroom. Other virtual programs see three-dimensional, life-sized anatomy holograms truthful students tin analyse everything from the quality skeleton and tense strategy to the gastrointestinal tract and different bodily systems with lifelike precision.

“The quality of this immersive exertion is that it tin beryllium manipulated to make a wide assortment of scenarios to heighten learning successful the classroom,” said Sanchez.

The immersive grooming task includes program updates and pupil externships with 90 hours of objective acquisition astatine 2 determination hospitals. In addition, the assistance volition money 4 further module instructors to grow enrollment successful the caller SDSU Imperial Valley BSN program.

Workforce pipeline

The 2nd grant, a $2.5 cardinal grant from the California Health and Human Services Agency, volition money a five-year task that includes the improvement and implementation of a caller broad workforce pipeline to enactment and promote underrepresented and disadvantaged precocious schoolhouse students to prosecute wellness careers successful Imperial County.

“The Health Professions Pathway Program is simply a win-win for Imperial County,” said Hoyt. “Local talented younker funny successful wellness professions tin beryllium mentored and offered section options for seeking a bachelor’s degree.”

Enhancing and expanding a culturally and linguistically precocious workforce, the task volition absorption connected superior care, nursing, behavioral health, geriatrics, and oral and allied health.

“This ‘grow your own’ attack volition assistance make a sustainable healthcare workforce to attraction for the residents of Imperial Valley communities,” said Karen Macauley, prof and manager of SDSU’s School of Nursing.

Macauley and Hoyt’s squad built an extended concern web that includes collaborations with the Imperial County Office of Education, 7 section precocious schools, the Imperial Valley Regional Occupational Program, Imperial Valley College, El Centro Regional Medical Center, and Pioneers Memorial Healthcare District.

“The School of Nursing is committed to addressing the nursing and wellness attraction assemblage shortages successful Imperial County,” said Macauley. “This backing supports pipeline efforts, particularly successful section Imperial County precocious schools, done mentoring and different pupil services.”

A mentoring program, wellness vocation days, and different wraparound services including fiscal aid, world advising and assemblage outreach events, are scheduled implicit the adjacent fewer years arsenic portion of the project.

Earlier successful October, SDSU Imperial Valley’s School of Nursing besides received a $5 cardinal National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to found a objective probe web and to code determination wellness disparities. The cooperative statement assistance betwixt SDSU, SDSU Imperial Valley School of Nursing, and El Centro Regional Medical Center supports objective probe for 5 years.