Immersium Studio designs Virtual Reality Hand Hygiene training for Doctors Without Borders
Immersium Studio has signed a collaboration agreement with Doctors Without Borders, through which we will develop a training experience using Virtual Reality for Hand Hygiene. This experience will be available for both healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses, auxiliary services) and non-healthcare personnel (logistics, administration, field coordinators, associated staff, etc.) who come into contact with patients in hospitals.
The immersive experience we’re developing will be part of Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) Infection Prevention and Control Program. The experience will place the user in a scenario where they must practice the five moments of hand hygiene: before touching a patient, before performing an aseptic task, after being exposed to bodily fluids, after touching a patient, and after touching the patient’s environment.
La experiencia inmersiva que estamos desarrollando formará parte del Programa de Prevención de Control de Infecciones de Médicos Sin Fronteras (MSF). La experiencia pondrá al usuario en un escenario donde deberá aplicar los 5 momentos de higiene de manos, que son: antes de tocar a un paciente, antes de realizar alguna tarea aséptica, después de estar expuesto a fluidos corporales, después de tocar a un paciente y después de tocar el entorno del paciente.
Read more about this project here.
The 5 moments of handwashing will focus on a hospitalized patient and will demonstrate the care that should be taken during these five moments, which are highly important for patient’s and individual protection. The experience will allow users to become aware of the risks to the patient and themselves during activities that require some type of contact with the patient and his environment. This experiential experience will generate empathy, fear, anger, awareness of the risks they face in medical practice, and even indignation at aspects they have already learned but sometimes fail to apply. It will allow users to make decisions based on a risk analysis, taking into account the activity to be performed and the risk of exposure.
We are very pleased to have begun this collaboration to help healthcare professionals, both in and outside the healthcare system, become aware of such an important act as hand hygiene, which is a more complicated process than it appears at first glance. This virtual reality experience will allow for a better understanding of this technique, the 5 steps of hand hygiene, which is so essential to society, especially in a hospital setting. The use of immersive technologies is very useful in many areas, and we hope this experience can greatly help all those who give their all to help others.
