Academic-Practice Collaboration Using Virtual Telesimulation to Support Students' Clinical Practice

Abstract

Background: Collaboration between academic institutions and clinical practice plays an important role in supporting students' learning in clinical practice. A virtual telesimulation was incorporated to provide academic-practice collaboration between academic educators and nurse preceptors to support students' clinical education. Purpose: The purpose was to evaluate the experiences of nursing students and academic educators on the perceived impact of virtual telesimulation in clinical education. Methods: A descriptive qualitative study using focus group discussions was conducted. Results: Four themes emerged: "coming together to know one another" for rapport building, "learning from different perspectives" to foster clinical learning and practice, "application of learning strategy" to stimulate case-based discussion, and "reaching out to more preceptors" to optimize its impact in clinical practice. Conclusions: Academic-practice collaboration using virtual telesimulation enabled students and academic educators to build rapport with clinical preceptors and learn from other practices, which in turn enhanced students' clinical learning experiences.

Nursing students’ readiness towards the ‘new normal’ in clinical practice: a distributed cognition qualitative perspective

“…For instance, students may be grouped by hospitals and receive contextually relevant information specific to their upcoming clinical practicums. This is a plausible idea as earlier research has shown that the use of such clinical simulations can improve students’ satisfaction and readiness for clinical practice [ 65 , 66 ].…”