At Immersium Studio we have developed a training experience through Virtual Reality with which we will train both health professionals (doctors, nurses, auxiliary services) and non-health professionals (logistics, administration, field coordinators, associated personnel, etc.) in proper hand hygiene, when coming into contact with patients at hospital level. This experience has been developed in co-creation with experts from Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and is part of its Infection Control Prevention Program.
The immersive experience consists of a training carried out in a Doctors Without Borders field hospital, where the user will play the role of a worker who is supervising a doctor who has just arrived at the hospital. The experience is focused on the 5 moments of hand hygiene, which must be applied at different moments of the experience.
The experience centers on a father who finds himself in a field hospital with his two newborn twin sons hospitalized one for malaria and the other for gastroenteritis and dehydration. A doctor and a nurse will carry out different interventions, so it will be necessary to perform correct hand hygiene in different situations. The user who performs the experience will have to make decisions about the steps to follow and what they have been observing. The experience will allow the user to become aware of the risks for the patient and for himself during activities that require some type of contact with the patient and his environment.
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Being able to practice situations in which you will find yourself in your professional life in a very realistic environment such as Virtual Reality, allows you to increase content retention through the emotions generated by these experiences. The fact of having done this type of immersive training, and feeling that you have already been there, makes users much more confident when making decisions and feel more emotionally connected. VR trainings allow learning four times faster than those obtained through conventional methods.
