Healthcare

MEDICAID EQUITY 
SIMULATION PROJECT

In an effort to promote health equity for the Medicaid population by training Medicaid providers to become more culturally competent and aware of implicit bias, UCSIM partnered with the UC College of Medicine and College of Nursing to develop two patient care VR simulations focusing on social health determinants of health. For each case study, the user has the ability to navigate around the scene and interact with the environment in virtual reality. 

VIRTUAL PATIENT

To succeed as clinicians, students must have a solid foundation of working with individuals prior to becoming members of interprofessional teams when they join the workforce. Further, graduates from these professional schools must be proficient in interviewing skills as they transition into their professional roles. This project provides students with a virtual interactive forum to practice these skills in a safe setting without the potential of causing harm to the client.

To succeed as clinicians,students must have a solid foundation of working with individuals prior to becoming members ofinterprofessional teams when they join the workforce.13 Further, graduates from these professional schools must be proficient in interviewing skills as they transition into their professional roles. This project will provide students with a virtual interactive forum to practice these skills in a safe setting, without thepotential of causing harm to client, and furthermore,allows students to practice until they are proficient.

DEVELOPING AN INTERPROFESSIONAL VIRTUAL HEALTHCARE WORLD FRAMEWORK

The purpose of this project was to design and build an interprofessional virtual clinical experience platform for nursing, medicine, pharmacy, and allied health students enrolled in on-site, blended, and online programs. The virtual clinical simulation system gives students the opportunity to safely engage in a variety of healthcare scenarios while practicing skills, processes, and procedures until perfected.  

Thisproposal is to design and build an interprofessional virtual clinical experience platform for nursing, medicine, pharmacy, and allied health students enrolled in onsite, blended, and online programs. The virtual clinical simulation system gives students the opportunity to safely engage in a variety healthcare scenarios while practicing skills, processes, and procedures until perfected. Each simulation will be carefully designed to meet specific learning objectives while providing interactive, handson, and

BEDSIDE CLINICAL TEACHING

Bedside Clinical Teaching (BCT) is a teaching method for bringing evidence-based knowledge about clinical problems and patient-specific information together in an encounter at the bedside to increase information exchange and skill development between direct caregivers including nurse assistants (NAs), licensed practical nurses, and other RNs providing direct care.

Faculty members Jaime Windeler and Andrew Harrison in the Lindner College of Business, Dept. of Operations &Business Analytics requested development of a virtual reality application to allow study participants to perform game theory tasks (Towers of Hanoi and Prisoner’s Dilemma with Punishment Rounds) as part of their ongoing research about economic decision-making. The purpose of this phase of the study is to measure the effects of fully immersive virtual reality on decision-making.Thisproposal is to design and build an interprofessional virtual clinical experience platform for nursing, medicine, pharmacy, and allied health students enrolled in onsite, blended, and online programs. The virtual clinical simulation system gives students the opportunity to safely engage in a variety healthcare scenarios while practicing skills, processes, and procedures until perfected. Each simulation will be carefully designed to meet specific learning objectives while providing interactive, handson, and