Background The ability of nursing undergraduates to communicate effectively with health
care providers, patients, and their family members is crucial to their nursing professions as …

Background Modern medical pedagogical strategies are shifting toward the use of virtual
patient simulations. Objective This study aims to examine students' users' attitudes and …

Background Communication is a crucial element of every health care profession, rendering
communication skills training in all health care professions as being of great importance …

Background Research has shown that nursing students find it difficult to translate and apply
their theoretical knowledge in a clinical context. Virtual patients (VPs) have been proposed …

Background: In the field of health care, knowledge and clinical reasoning are key with
regard to quality and confidence in decision making. The development of knowledge and …

Background Virtual reality simulations are shown to be an effective approach for
interprofessional nurse-physician communication training. However, its scalability is …

Background Virtual patient simulation has grown substantially in health care education. A
virtual patient simulation was developed as a refresher training course to reinforce nursing …

Background: Virtual patients are interactive digital simulations of clinical scenarios for the
purpose of health professions education. There is no current collated evidence on the …

Purpose Nursing students should exhibit competence in nursing skills in order to provide
safe and quality patient care. This study describes the design and students' response to an …

Background: Clinical reasoning is based on the declarative and procedural knowledge of
workflows in clinical medicine. Educational approaches such as problem-based learning or …