Innovative, Immersive Learning: Relias Expands VR Access to Solve Healthcare Workforce Training Challenges
Summary
When used alongside other learning modalities, VR is a powerful tool that allows healthcare professionals to refine their skills in realistic clinical environments, ensuring better retention, decision-making, and adherence to best practices, without risk to themselves or patients. With healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) affecting 1 in 31 hospital patients every day, VR is emerging as a breakthrough solution, offering something no other modality can: the ability to visualize how germs are spread in real time. Relias is launching a VR solution* across U.S. hospitals to train and assess nurses on Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), with the goal of improving competence, confidence, and compliance to reduce HAIs. “Since introducing Relias’ VR solution, we’ve seen a real shift in how staff operate,” said Jill Greenwood-Williamson, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, NPD-BC, Director of Clinical Education at OSF HealthCare. “This is especially true for infection prevention — VR allows learners to actually see germ transmission, reinforcing behaviors in an engaging and active way.” Barber concluded, “Relias is committed to providing just the right mix of training solutions, and VR is another tool we’re excited to offer healthcare organizations looking to build a more confident, capable workforce.” Relias provides workforce enablement solutions for 12,000 healthcare organizations and 4.5 million caregivers to drive measurable outcomes.