Overview
This study was planned to evaluate the effect of a preoperative patient preparation video, shown to nursing students via virtual reality glasses, on the development of empathy skills towards the perioperative process.
Description
In recent years, virtual reality (VR)-based simulations used to support nursing students in understanding empathy and patient experience have been shown to enhance students' empathy and patient perspective skills. However, evidence regarding the impact of experiencing the preoperative patient preparation process with VR on nursing students' empathy and patient safety-focused perspectives towards the perioperative process is limited. Therefore, examining the effect of VR-based preoperative patient preparation experience on empathy levels in nursing students emerges as a scientific and educational necessity for improving perioperative nursing education and supporting patient-centered and safe care.
The study will be conducted with second-year nursing undergraduate students who will be taking the Surgical Nursing course.
The change in empathy scores at the end of the semester will be compared between students who participated in the VR-based preoperative preparation simulation application and those who did not.
Students will be randomly assigned to groups.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Being enrolled in and attending the Surgical Nursing course at the institution where the research is being conducted, and taking the course for the first time
Exclusion Criteria:
- Having worked or currently working in an operating room.
