HealthTech May 20, 2020
Mikela Lea

A digital connection for frontline caretakers is crucial to classroom continuity and skill development, especially during a pandemic.

Nursing instructors are leading the charge when it comes to adopting new educational technologies, outpacing efforts in medical and general education. The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the value of tools that supplement a hands-on experience.

Sixty-five percent of nursing education programs already were using virtual simulation and other adaptive digital learning methods to enhance onsite learning and to ensure students are practice-ready, according to information services company Wolters Kluwer.

These applications, the firm notes in a blog post, can address a shortage of nurse educators and eliminate patient confidentiality concerns at hospital training sites.

And now, as educational programs of all types...

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