HealthLeaders Media August 30, 2023
Front-line nurses are the clinicians most likely to encounter patients suffering from high anxiety.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– Nurses do not feel adequately prepared to care for anxious patients.
– Full-immersion virtual reality simulation decreased nursing students’ anxiety levels when communicating with anxious patients.
– Nurses more comfortable treating anxiety-prone patients will have a more therapeutic nurse-patient relationship.
Full-immersion virtual reality simulation decreased nursing students’ anxiety levels when communicating with anxious patients, says new research published in the September issue of Clinical Simulation in Nursing.
With anxiety as the most prevalent mental health disorder in the United States, nurses do not feel adequately prepared to care for anxious patients, according to the research by Tanae A. Traister, assistant dean of Nursing...
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