For undergraduate nursing students, practical experience out in the field is invaluable. But it can also be nerve-racking.
“When we’re out shadowing nurses for clinicals, we have strict rules around what we’re allowed to do and not allowed to do,” says Kathryn Chapman, a senior nursing student at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). “[The patient] is a real person, so you have that concern of, what if I make a mistake?”
Now, NCCU nursing students like Chapman can learn important skills in a low-risk, low-stress environment thanks to a new “Immersive Interactive Room” at the Department of Nursing, unveiled Thursday during a ribbon-cutting ceremony and demonstration. NCCU is the first nursing program in the state to host the interactive technology…