Healthcare IT News January 4, 2024
Andrea Fox

Tech-enabled experiential learning is elevating nursing curriculums to engage more students – and produce more graduates who say they’re ready to hit the ground running in a digital health environment.

Over five years, the University of Rochester School of Nursing transitioned from students managing large textbooks across multiple devices, and schedules filled with lectures, into a tablet-driven metaverse of learning where instructional designers work with faculty to provide real-world, hands-on experience.

By mid-year 2023, the program reported a 50% rise in enrollment from its numbers in 2016. That increase may seem surprising for a couple of reasons.

Ninety percent of nurses were ready to leave the profession in 2022 due to the administrative burnout and mental strain of working through...

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