In recent years, Virtual Reality (VR) has been increasingly used to train healthcare professionals. However, certain aspects of its application, such as the relationship between VR environments, training, and Sense of Presence (SoP), have yet to be explored. SoP impacts learners’ performances in certain learning situations, whereas in others, it does not. This study aimed to investigate the ...

Communication skills training is essential in nurse education. Miscommunication may lead to adverse events and unsafe healthcare. To date, valid and reliable instruments to serve both communication training and assessment purposes across different cultural contexts are scarce. The present study empirically tested a French-language version of the Health Communication Assessment Tool© (HCAT-f) across ...

Le gouvernement du Québec a investi dans une offensive de transformation numérique. Elle vise à accélérer le virage technologique de plusieurs secteurs d’activités incluant celui de l’enseignement. Pour les universités, cette décision se traduit par un rehaussement de l’intégration pédagogique des technologies de l’information et des communications (TIC). D’ailleurs, dans plusieurs cas, ces TIC ...

Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the prevalence of academic burnout (AB) and its associated factors among nursing and midwifery students during the COVID- 19 pandemic. Design: A correlational cross- sectional study. Methods: An online survey was distributed from November to December 2020 to nursing and midwifery students in Belgium. The risk of AB was assessed using the MBI- SS ...

Le burn-out académique (BA) (1) est un trouble psychologique récemment décrit qui affecte la santé mentale des étudiants et qui est lié à la pression de la réussite universitaire et à l'acquisition de nouvelles responsabilités. Lors de l’accompagnement pédagogique des étudiants infirmiers et sages-femmes, nous observons un certain nombre de difficultés liées à la ‘lourdeur de la formation’ (2), ...

Le nombre d’heures de stage des étudiants en soins infirmiers a augmenté de manière substantielle. Ainsi, ces derniers sont tenus de prester 2.300 heures de stage au chevet du patient (1). Or, il apparait que ces étudiants sont peu supervisés. Ainsi, l’apprentissage clinique se déroule par essais et erreurs, au gré des opportunités et des situations d’apprentissage (2, 3). Il a été démontré qu’une ...

Le Spiritual Care peut être défini comme l'attention des professionnels de la santé à la dimension spirituelle au cœur du "prendre soin". Le dispositif pédagogique contient deux parties. L'interdisciplinarité y est recherchée. En effet, outre des infirmiers en soins à domicile, des gardes à domicile et des assistants sociaux font partie du public-cible La première consiste en des simulations virtuelles, ...

Background Virtual Reality (VR) has proven to be an interesting and expanding tool for healthcare education, especially with the impact of the Sense of Presence (SoP) on learning. The study was designed to investigate to what extent users’ social and internal factors might influence the SoP and to further identify members of occupations’ characteristics influencing immersive experiences. Method A ...

Teamwork training and evaluation are essential to enhance safety and quality of care. The lack of the psychometric testing of the TeamSTEPPS® Teamwork Attitudes Questionnaire (T-TAQ) and Teamwork Perceptions Questionnaire (T-TPQ) across different language and cultural settings has questioned their widespread use because such attitudes and perceptions are highly subjective and context-bound. The ...

The COVID-19 crisis has radically affected our healthcare institutions. Debriefings in clinical settings provide a time for the clinicians to reflect on the successes (pluses) and difficulties (deltas) encountered. Debriefings tend to be well-received if included in the broader management of the unit. The goal of this study was to develop a framework to categorize these debriefings and to assess its ...