Promoting Nursing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Through Virtual Reality Learning.

Nurse leaders are foundational to the success of creating an inclusive culture and climate and responding to situations of discrimination, racism, microaggressions, and bias in healthcare settings. This article describes a leadership education initiative using virtual reality to provide diversity, equity, and inclusion training for nurse leaders. Immersion in a lived experience provides a safe and effective learning environment to promote, improve, and exemplify diversity, equity, and inclusion principles and should be explored for other educational applications.

Evaluation of safety and care outcomes after the introduction of a virtual registered nurse model.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of a virtual registered nurse (ViRN) model on safety and care outcomes. ViRN is a telemedicine intervention that enables an experienced virtual nurse to assist the in-person care team in providing care to patients.

Data Sources And Study Setting: Electronic health records data were utilized from the Mayo Clinic during the intervention (December 2020-November 2021) and historical periods (December 2018-November 2019).