by admin | Jun 4, 2021 | Blog
VRpatients’ Customizable Authoring Tool Puts Your Curriculum in the Palm of Your Hand Think back about how you discovered not to touch the stove. Someone probably told you not to touch it because it could be hot, but it was only when you burned yourself that you...
by admin | May 11, 2023 | Blog
VRpatients Celebrates Nursing Appreciation Week With Stories from Our Very Own Nursing Appreciation Week may be just one week on the calendar. But those of us who have worked in a hospital, loved a healthcare professional, loved a patient, or been a patient, we know...
by admin | Apr 3, 2023 | Blog
Giving students the ability to make mistakes and learn from those mistakes is an important part of learning to be a nurse or emergency responder. Emerging technologies like virtual reality can help. The tagline for VRpatients is Real life training without real life...
by admin | Feb 20, 2023 | Blog
Want to know what it’s like to start using VRpatients? We talked to Becky Bartell, the Interim Director and Assistant Professor for the Department of Nursing at Bethel College in North Newton, KS. Bethel College has a total student population of about 500, with 22...
by admin | Dec 2, 2022 | Blog
What It Takes to Win And What the Judging Process Was Really Like (From a Winner’s Perspective) VRpatients is celebrating after winning an EMS World 2022 Innovation Award. “This is vindication for VRpatients,” says Devin Marble, Marketing Director of VRpatients and...
by admin | Nov 17, 2022 | Blog
‘Real Talk’ with EMS Director on Next level Immersive Learning With the goal of getting EMS students more classroom time without the students physically being in the classroom, Meghan Jaggars, Paramedic Program Director of the Lowcountry Regional EMS Council in...
by admin | Aug 30, 2022 | Blog
Deciding which simulation training modality is the best for your nursing, EMS or education program doesn’t need to be difficult. There are several options including task trainers, low-fidelity manikins, hands-on manikin-based SBE, computer-based simulation, or...
by admin | Jul 22, 2022 | Blog
Once you have the funding for your VR lab, you will need to set up the physical space. Two experts weigh in on what it takes to keep the equipment in shape for the students. They have each set up VR labs of their own using VRpatients and have consulted on many...
by admin | Jul 11, 2022 | Blog
Setting Up a VR Lab – The Physical Space (Part 2 of 3) Once you have the funding for your VR lab, you will need to set up the physical space. VR training experts, Tracy Chesney and Devin Marble, have set up several VR simulation labs and have learned from their...
