Teaching Airway Insertion Skills to Nursing Faculty and Students Using Virtual Reality: A Pilot Study

Background: Few methods exist for training nursing students in difficult airway management. This study presents a virtual reality (VR) intervention for teaching students these skills. Methods: Survey sampling was combined with a quasi-experimental one-group pretest-posttest design assessing fidelity, realism, potential adverse effects, and efficacy of a VR intervention for airway management among undergraduate nursing faculty and students. Results: Overwhelmingly, faculty and students rated the VR airway Laboratory as having high presence, no cybersickness, and significantly improving knowledge of airway management (p < .0001). Conclusions: The VR airway Laboratory is an efficacious means of teaching difficult airway management skills to nursing students. (C) 2019 International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.