@article{9b42ea9bc05c4541a7fac5dc2d3fe218,
title = "Acquisition of Fire Safety Knowledge and Skills with Virtual Reality Simulation",
abstract = "Background Prelicensure nursing students seeking to enter perioperative nursing need preparatory fire safety knowledge and skills training to participate as a member of an operating room (OR) team. Purpose This pilot study examined the effectiveness of the Virtual Electrosurgery Skill Trainer (VEST) on OR fire safety skills among prelicensure nursing students. Methods An experimental pretest-posttest design was used in this study. Twenty nursing students were randomized to a control or an intervention group. Knowledge and skills acquisition of OR fire safety were assessed. Results There were no statistically significant findings in knowledge for either group. Fisher exact test demonstrated significant relationships between the skills performance criteria of following emergency procedures for a fire and demonstrating PASS (pull-aim-squeeze-sweep) technique (P =.001). Conclusions Academic and hospital educators may consider incorporating virtual reality simulation to teach fire safety education or reinforce general fire safety practices to nursing students and novice nurses.",
keywords = "Virtual Electrosurgery Skill Trainer (VEST), fire safety, nursing education, operating room fire safety, perioperative nursing, virtual reality simulation",
author = "Rossler, {Kelly L.} and Ganesh Sankaranarayanan and Adrianne Duvall",
note = "Funding Information: Author Affiliations: Assistant Professor (Dr Rossler), Lecturer (Dr Duvall), Louise Herrington School of Nursing, Baylor University; and Assistant Director (Dr Sankaranarayanan), Center for Evidence Based Simulation, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. The authors declare no conflicts of interest. G.S. has funding from NIH/NIBIB R01 EB 014305 through a subaward at the Baylor University Medical Center related to VEST. Authors acknowledge Drs Denis Dorozhkin and Suvranu De, developers of the VESTsimulator from the Center for Modeling, Simulation, and Imaging in Medicine, Rensselaer Polytech Institute, for granting us permission to use the simulator in this study. Contact information to request information on VEST: des@rpi.edu. Correspondence: Dr Rossler, Louise Herrington School of Nursing of Baylor University, 3700 Worth St, Dallas, TX 75246 (Kelly_Rossler@baylor.edu). Supplemental digital content is available for this article. Direct URL citations appear in the printed text are provided in the HTML PDF versions of this article on the journal's Web site (www.nurseeducatoronline.com). Accepted for publication: April 1, 2018 Published ahead of print: May 24, 2018 DOI: 10.1097/NNE.0000000000000551 Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.",
year = "2019",
month = mar,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1097/NNE.0000000000000551",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "44",
pages = "88--92",
journal = "Nurse Educator",
issn = "0363-3624",
publisher = "Lippincott Williams and Wilkins",
number = "2",
}