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Simulated Hospital Environment For Nursing
Education
Advisors Fatma Mili, PhD, CSSE Laura Pittiglio,
PhD, RN, School of Nursing Meghan Harris, PhD,
RN, School of Nursing

Tomia Hines Fort Valley State University Fort
Valley, Georgia
Reshard Horne Huston-Tillotson
University Austin, Texas
David Williams Tennessee Technological
University Cookeville, Tennessee
MEDICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA
PROBLEM
APPROACH
STUDENT EVALUATION
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The Health Resources and Services Administration
has reported that in order to meet the projected
demand for nurses from 2000 to 2020, the U.S.
must graduate approximately 90 percent more
nurses from U.S. nursing programs2. The
American Association of Clinical Nurses also
reported that U. S. nursing schools turned away
40,285 qualified applicants due to a lack of
faculty, clinical sites, classroom space,
clinical preceptors, and budget constraints1. A
method allowing faculty to train students more
efficiently, consequently, permitting more
students to be admitted into nursing programs in
order to meet the demand for nurses, is needed.
BACKGROUND

• Extensibility and scalability
• Realistic experience
• Experience driven by learning objectives
• Customized experience
• Live data

• VI-MED, started in 2007, is a software teaching
  tool created for nursing faculty and students.
• For the students, VI-MED must provide a safe,
  realistic environment allowing them to learn
  through experimentation and trial and error.
• For the faculty, the system must allow educators
  to customize the experience that students will
  have during the game and have access to the
  assessment of student performance.
• The objectives for the first version of VI-MED
  were to prove feasibility of the project and to
  test acceptability and usability among the
  nursing faculty and students.
• Since the system is fully functional, proving
  the feasibility, and with acceptance established
  through restricted testing, VI-MED is ready
• for Phase II of its development.

• The Medical Encyclopedia contains functions that
  will cause each patients vital signs to change
  depending on the diseases assigned to them and
  treatments given.

CUSTOMIZED LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• The number of patients as well as their ailments
  and
• demographics are dictated by
• Published Data
• Course Objectives
• Student Needs

CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK
VI-MED is a hospital simulator intended to
provide students and educators with a supplement
to a standard curriculum which is more
interactive than didactic learning and safer and
more easily monitored than clinical training.
With the use of VI-MED, nursing education will
become more efficient because nursing faculty
will have more resources and time to assess
student performance. Our future research efforts
include ? Comparing the existing mathematical
model of patient evolution to other options.
? Adding new diseases, interventions and their
corresponding vital parameters. ? Adding
evaluation algorithms that can identify more
specific areas where student improvement is
needed. ? Adding pediatrics patients to the game,
emphasizing the different treatments age
demographics require. ? Expanding the software to
interface with databases maintained by
national agencies. ? Gathering feedback from
nursing students. ? Expanding the software to
help train medical students.
This is a snapshot of the in game environment.
Players will be able to affect patient vital
signs by administering treatments. Decisions made
by students during the intervention process
demonstrates the critical thinking skills
necessary in a realistic hospital environment.
References
1 American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
2007-2008 Enrollment and Graduations in
Baccalaureate and Graduate Programs in Nursing.
(Mar. 2008). 2 Human Resources and Services
Administration. Projected Supply, Demand, and
Shortages of Registered Nurses, 2000-2020.
2002. URLhttp//www.ahcancal.org/researchdat
a/staffing/Documents/Registered_NurseSupplyDemand.
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