Augmented Reality Healthcare Scenarios – Clinical Case Studies

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9 Clinical Case Studies:

  • Designed to be completed in a class or lab situation, with a faculty-led discussion or a flipped classroom approach
  • Media brings case studies to life
  • Interactive questions and guides encourage participants to explore compelling cases and promote the development of clinical reasoning
  • Case studies promote higher order thinking: application, analysis, and synthesis according to Bloom’s taxonomy (Bloom, 1956)
  • Can be used for debriefing across the curriculum as called for by the NLN (NLN Board of Governors, 2015)
  • Color coded in blue

Community CPR

Community CPR

Henry Foster is a 62-year-old male patient who experiences a cardiac arrest as he enters a building for an appointment. This scenario provides media to contextualize the learning experience as students perform CPR, utilize an AED, and respond to his concerned wife during the crisis.

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Newborn Pharmacy Technician Level 1

New Born Pharmacy Technician Level 1

A customer arrives at a retail pharmacy to pick up medications for her wife, Olivia Brooks, who was just discharged from the hospital following a Cesarean Section. There are also medications to pick up for their new baby, Nova Brooks. In this scenario, students discover that the insurance company has the new baby listed as a boy named Noah, instead of a girl named Nova. The customer decides to deal with the insurance company later and pay for the baby’s medications now. Students will fill the medication order from the shelves of the ARISE Virtual Pharmacy. At the end of the scenario, Olivia Brooks calls the retail pharmacy stating she has concerns about the medications getting to the baby through her breast milk and asks for information about this.

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Newborn Pharmacy Technician Level 2

Newborn Pharmacy Technician Level 2

Nova Brooks was born a few minutes ago at 34 weeks’ gestation. In the beginning of this scenario, students receive report from an RN stating that surfactant is needed STAT in the nursery. Student will need to review the Survanta Administration Protocol and then select the correct amount of surfactant from the Virtual Pharmacy shelf. Then, students receive another call indicating that antibiotics are needed. Students should compound the ordered antibiotics per individual program guidelines.

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Heart Failure Pharmacy Technician 1A

Heart Failure Pharmacy Technician 1A

Henry Foster is a 62-year-old male patient who was just discharged from the hospital following an exacerbation end-stage heart failure and COPD. He also has cellulitis in his right lower extremity and multiple other comorbidities. At the beginning of this case study, he presents a copy of his insurance card and discharge prescription orders to a retail pharmacy to be filled. Students must correctly gather these prescriptions from the shelves of the ARISE Virtual Pharmacy. Once completed, they see a video of the patient who is shocked and angry at the cost of these medications. Students must choose how to respond.

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Heart Failure Pharmacy Technician 1B

Heart Failure Pharmacy Technician 1B

Paul Foster is the grandson of Henry Foster. Henry was visiting his grandson from out of town when he had an exacerbation of end-stage heart failure and COPD. Henry was discharged from the hospital a few hours ago.

At the beginning of this case study, Paul presents a copy of Henry’s insurance card and discharge prescription orders to a retail pharmacy to be filled. Students must correctly gather these prescriptions from the shelves of the ARISE Virtual Pharmacy. Once completed, they see a video of the Paul who is shocked and angry at the cost of these medications. Students must choose how to respond.

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Wound Management Nursing Level 2

Wound Management Nursing Level 2

Clint D. Fullerton is a 67 year old male who was admitted to the medical/surgical floor for treatment of a left ankle wound. Mr. Fullerton resides at a local skilled nursing facility secondary to self-care deficits and being a brittle diabetic. He had multiple rounds of antibiotic treatment with no successful results. Last night he developed foul smelling diarrhea and a culture was sent.

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Clinical Handoff Report Respiratory Therapy

Clinical Handoff Report Respiratory Therapy

This case study has been designed with maximum flexibility for instructors to augment the reality of clinical handoff reports in the simulation lab or classroom setting. To enhance communication-related learning activities, instructors may select QR Codes for various report videos from the QR Code tables below. In addition, these report videos can be incorporated into group classroom activities by tapping on the iPad and displaying the media using a projector.

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Clinical Handoff Report Nursing

Clinical Handoff Report Respiratory Therapy

This case study has been designed with maximum flexibility for instructors to augment the reality of handoff reports in the simulation lab or classroom setting. To enhance communication-related learning activities, instructors may select QR Codes for various report videos from the QR Code tables below. In addition, these report videos can be incorporated into group classroom activities by tapping on the associated Nursing Reports tab on the iPad and displaying the media using a projector.

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Head to Toe Assessment

Head to Toe Assessment

This case study has been designed with maximum flexibility for instructors to augment the reality of patient assessment in the simulation labor classroom setting. Instructors may select QR codes for various images, sounds and videos to incorporate into a learning activity from one or all of the following categories: Cardiovascular, Pulmonary, GI/GU, Integumentary and Equipment. See the Media table below for the sounds and images that are included under each category. This media can be incorporated into a group classroom learning activity tapping on the associated tab on the iPad and displaying the media using a projector.

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