Session 8: Lightning talk: Stepping up psychosis: the use of virtual reality in preregistration education

Abstract

This session will showcase the use of Virtual reality (VR) as a learning tool within mental health nurse education. Blending to the education and student experience theme for the conference and the digital, data and technologies strategy along with the student experience strategy at LMJU the session will highlight innovation within nurse education.

The session will outline how co-creation between academics in mental health and teaching and learning technicians specialising in VR enabled a unique learning opportunity for student mental health nurses. A fully immersive VR experience into the world of person living with psychosis whilst being treated within a mental health facility has enabled the team to support students to have an insight into an areas they could only previously theoretically learn about. Being able to have a short experience of what its like to have this illness has allowed the students to develop deeper empathy and compassion when caring for people living with psychosis, thus hopefully improving patient care once qualified.

This session will be able to show how VR can be utilised to teach topics or support skill acquisition in professional courses that may have before been difficult to replicate.

Stepping up psychosis: the use of virtual reality in preregistration education PowerPoint. Only LJMU staff and students have access to this resource.