nursing education

Nurse standing in a hallway holding a tablet
By  Jessica Hagen 08:00 am September 10, 2024
Hippocratic AI, a generative AI company developing safety-focused large language models for healthcare, is partnering with Adtalem Global Education to create an academic curriculum to train and certify clinicians on the use of AI in healthcare. "What we wanted to do is develop a curriculum that really educates nurses around general introductions to artificial intelligence and generative AI, which...
A nurse trying out a VR simulator at the Virtual Reality Health Lab in KD Hospital
By  Adam Ang 09:12 pm July 9, 2024
A nursing training facility in India has recently opened, which could be the first to be augmented by virtual reality technology. Healthcare VR developer MediSim VR has partnered with Kusum Dhirajlal (KD) Hospital to establish the Virtual Reality Health Lab.  WHAT IT'S ABOUT Located at the 300-bed multispecialty hospital in Ahmedabad, a city in the western state of Gujarat in India, the nursing...
A nursing student wearing a VR lens demonstrates the use of the Virtual Hospital learning system
By  Adam Ang 02:30 am August 17, 2022
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has recently developed a virtual learning system that uses virtual reality technology to enhance nursing education amid the ongoing global pandemic. PolyU's Virtual Hospital learning system is said to offer an "innovative experiential approach to nursing education". WHAT IT'S ABOUT Touted to be the first-of-its-kind in Hong Kong, the VR-based learning system...