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Issue 2 JULY– DECEMBER 2025
Research Articles Volume 1 (Issue 2) JULY– DECEMBER 2025
Virtual Reality for Pediatric Nursing Education: A Pilot Assessment of How Students React and Learn
Vol.1(2); Pages:1-9. Published on July-2025
Abstract
Many now view virtual reality (VR) simulation as an effective and modern tool for teaching medical students, giving them a realistic, repeatable and safe setting to practice. The study was conducted on 40 undergraduate nursing students to study the benefit of VR simulation on their nursing competencies. In the study, everyone received two intervention sessions: one on giving medicine to children and another on family-centered communication. Assessments had to be done before and after the intervention to understand student knowledge, ability and involvement. Clinical skills improved significantly for students and the sessions kept most students very engaged (p < 0.05). Students thought that using virtual reality increased their ability to handle situations with children and praised how lifelike the scenarios were. It seems that VR simulation can improve nursing students’ understanding of areas that involve few clinical experiences, for example pediatrics. It supports the idea of using VR simulation in nursing courses to link what is learned theoretically to real-life situations in pediatric nursing.
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Linking Life Sciences to Care: The Role of Simulation-Based Learning in Preparing Beginner Nursing Students
Vol.1(2); Pages:10-17. Published on November-2025
Abstract
Clinical simulation has become one of the central learning methods in nursing education, especially when it concerns introducing novice learners to the process of transferring their theory into the world of practice. Through the combination of knowledge of biosciences with realistic situations giving care to the patient, simulation-based education allows the student to acquire critical thinking, decision-making and psychomotor skills in a controlled and safe setting. This would make them more confident and competent, not to mention the diminished risk of making mistakes in the real clinical practice. Moreover, simulation promotes reflective learning where the feedback is instant making the student assess him/herself and improve every day. Simulation has been established as the key connecting point between classroom learning and modern practice in healthcare environments, which are becoming more complex now than ever.
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A Mixed-Methods Approach to Clinical Judgment Skill Development in Young Nurses Through Blended Virtual And in-Person Simulation
Vol.1(2); Pages:18-25. Published on November-2025
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This is a mixed-methods study that examines how combining virtual simulation and face-to-face simulation helps to improve clinical judgement among undergraduate nursing students. The blended simulation model is another effective learning model that provides a creative and adaptable experiential learning environment as needs increase in innovative teaching strategies in the education of nurses. The quantitative coding shows that there are valuable gains in clinical decision-making skills among the students, and the qualitative data reflect the role of improved self-confidence, critical analysis, and flexibility to deal with the most demanding clinical situations. The combination of the virtual and the physical modalities of simulation would offer a multifaceted method of narrowing the gap between theory and practice in preparing safe, competent, and practice-ready nursing graduates.
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A Study on Nursing Students’ Opinions on Integrated Simulation Learning in Clinical Training
Vol.1(2); Pages:26-33. Published on November-2025
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This paper examines the attitudes of nursing students concerning hybrid simulation-based learning in the clinical studies through the process of text-mining-aided analysis. SimOne demonstrates the potential of hybrid simulation to help nurses become more competent and confident care professionals. The data used were student reflections, feedback surveys, and open-ended responses and treated through the method of text-mining the repetitive themes and tendencies. The insights point out the recognition of students regarding improved clinical decision-making, confidence, and critical thinking. There were however challenges that we noted such as technological issues, learning anxiety, and time. Findings emphasize the need of a well-structured guidance, technical assistance, and curriculum integration in order to exploit the full potential of hybrid simulation. This study can inform nursing education by offering facts about the experience of learners, which can give nursing educators a platform upon which to base improvement in the simulation-based learning strategy.
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Simulation-Based Training for Improved Nursing Home Practice: Perspectives from Medical Graduates
Vol.1(2); Pages:34-42. Published on November-2025
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This qualitative research paper discusses the experiences of nursing students who have gone through simulation-based training in addition to experiences in the clinical settings in nursing homes. Although traditional clinical placements allow students to gain supplementary clinical experience required to subsequently engage in clinical practice, the learning experience is fraught with limitations (namely: the uneven delivery of learning experience, and the unevenness of supervision). A submitted simulation-based instructional setting enables learners to have a form of organized environment to make a clinic decision-making case, be involved, and feel communications with the elderly without threatening patients. The study shows the main findings by means of a thematic analysis of student reflections and indicates not only the increased feeling of confidence but also a better impending and the built of critical thinking skills. But also topics like emotional stress, artificiality, perceived and dependence on facilitation quality were found. All findings imply that simulation training combined with clinical practice has the potential to enhance competency development, fill theory-practice gaps, and enhance overall nursing home care readiness.
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Issue 1 JANUARY- JUNE 2025
Research Articles Volume 1(Issue 1) JANUARY- JUNE 2025
Teaching Nursing Students about the Sociopolitical Aspects of Gerontechnology: Developing Dementia Care
Vol.1(1); Pages:1-9. Published on May-2025
Abstract
Gerontechnologies need to integrate more seriously into dementia care because global populations continue to grow older. The research evaluates how educational programs instruct nursing students to approach and control the social and political impacts of these technologies. Qualitative analysis of nursing education programs alongside instructional approaches facilitates the discovery of how students learn about gerontechnological benefits for clinical applications together with their societal effects extending from ethics through economics to culture. The research results demonstrate increased emphasis on preparing the next generation of nurses to defend fair and responsible integration of technology specifically for dementia patients during elder care.
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A Human Rights-Based Perspective on Ethical Issues in Research and Care for Dementia
Vol.1(1); Pages:10-17. Published on May-2025
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This paper investigates human rights-based research practices in dementia investigations to protect the dignity and self-determination rights of people with dementia. Research methodologies extended with human rights principles aim to protect participant rights as well as ensure researchers listen to participants and maintain their welfare over the entire research period. The paper details important ethical challenges including informed consent procedures together with caregiver involvement and researcher-subject power relationships in research environments. The framework offers various benefits that include affecting dementia care policy and leading to improved practices and better quality life for dementia patients. The human rights framework provides an inclusive framework which respects subjects and researchers by offering total ethical solutions to dementia research problems with a goal of creating equal opportunities for all participants.
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Facilitated Family Case Conferencing Vs. Usual Care for Enhancing End-Of-Life Outcomes In Nursing Home Residents With Advanced Dementia: A Pragmatic Trial Protocol
Vol.1(1); Pages:18-25. Published on May-2025
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As part of its study protocol the IDEAL research conducts an RCT trial to evaluate the effectiveness of FFCC compared to classic patient treatment while assessing its impact on end-of-life care delivery and care results for both nursing home patients with advanced dementia and their relatives. Healthcare facilities face substantial difficulty with dementia care delivery because the number of elderly patients continues to rise. Advanced dementia patients in nursing homes face treatment complications while their families encounter multiple obstacles to making good decisions due to emotional and cognitive limitations and lack of information. The research focuses on creating an organized family case conferencing framework that conducts periodic meetings between healthcare providers and families alongside care teams to examine care choices and life-end decisions and patient objectives. End-of-life care quality improvement stands as the main study goal and researchers will measure it through the assessment of resident symptom control and family member satisfaction and care preference communication. The study measures both quality and frequency changes within end-of-life treatment settings as well as resident-family satisfaction results among patients at nursing homes. Research findings from this study will produce significant evidence about the capabilities and effects of FFCC in dementia care improvement within nursing homes which can extend to broader impacts in advanced dementia and end-of-life care policy and practice development.
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Reducing Distress Behaviors in Dementia: Learnings from Veterans Health Administration Implementation Techniques
Vol.1(1); Pages:26-35. Published on May-2025
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Individuals with dementia commonly display distress behaviors which include agitation, aggression and wandering behavior along with care resistance inside institutional care facilities especially long-term care facilities. Dementia patients display these behaviors since they fail to meet their needs or struggle with communication or experience triggers in their environment that produces life-quality issues for both patients and their caregivers. One of the largest integrated healthcare systems within the United States known as Veterans Health Administration (VHA) launched research-backed strategies to control such behaviors when delivering dementia care services. This paper explores the implementation science approaches used by the VHA to mitigate distress behaviors, focusing on interdisciplinary collaboration, person-centered care planning, staff training, and environmental modifications.Drawing on qualitative and quantitative evaluations, the study highlights how the VHA’s adoption of frameworks such as the RE-AIM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance) model and the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR) have guided the translation of best practices into routine care. Two main interventions operated by the Veterans Affairs organization are STAR-VA (Staff Training in Assisted Living Residences – Veterans Affairs) and the Behavioral Recovery Outreach (BRO) Team initiative. These programs deliver specialized behavioral evaluations alongside trauma-aware services that combine multidisciplinary team-based case evaluation between physicians and mental health professionals and geriatric specialists. The study findings demonstrate fundamental requirements for behavioral health expansion across different clinical environments which include dedicated executive support coupled with ongoing education and responsive evaluation systems. The experience of the Veterans Health Administration provides essential awareness to future healthcare systems which want to tackle behavioral health issues in elderly patients with dementia. Recommendations for statewide dementia care improvement include scalable deployment approaches and policy solutions which the paper presents as conclusions.
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Investigating the Effects of Multimodal Stimuli and System Interactivity on Human-Robot Interaction to Increase Engagement in Dementia Patients
Vol.1(1); Pages:36-44. Published on May-2025
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This research examines how system interactivity combined with various stimuli enhances human-robot interactions when dealing with people who have dementia. The quality of life for dementia patients deteriorates as the disease advances because they develop communication problems and difficulty engaging with others. The study merges interactive robotic systems with visual together with auditory along with tactile feedback to assess the combined influence on better engagement and interaction effectiveness. Research data shows that dementia patients benefit greatly from interactive robotic systems which respond through multimodal sensory cues since this approach leads to increased attention and fewer behavioral symptoms while stimulating cognitive function. Robotic technologies show great promise for therapy support that helps dementia patients enhance their wellbeing.
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