Immersive Virtual Reality as an International Collaborative Space for Innovative Simulation Design

Immersive virtual reality (IVR) is an increasingly utilized modality for nursing simulation. In addition to its role as a simulation setting, IVR has utility as a virtual meeting space in which simulation design teams can collaborate in real time, all while interacting within the simulation environment itself. This article describes how an international simulation design team utilized IVR to develop, implement, and iterate a simulation scenario created for prelicensure nursing students. The IVR setting allowed the team to efficiently and effectively create and improve on this scenario before successfully delivering it to nursing students. (C) 2021 International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning. Publishedby Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.