Two University of Colorado College of Nursing affiliate professors on the Anschutz Medical Campus are utilizing good glasses to reinforce nursing schooling – and so they hope to make use of that expertise in nursing care.

Associate Professor Mustafa Ozkaynak, PhD, Assistant Professor and Senior Director of the Experimental Learning Team Fara Bowler, DNP, APRN, CHSE and visiting Professor Ayda Kebapci, PhD, RN, wish to see how the results of good glasses can enhance affected person care.

Smart glasses that pupil wore through the examine.

The three are within the preliminary phases of a pilot examine utilizing good glasses to assist information college students throughout a medical train. The good glasses embrace a headset with digicam and microphone that connects the scholar to a distant knowledgeable for assist.

“(The expert) can see what the student is seeing, and guide them through what’s next,” Dr. Ozkaynak says.

The three-day examine concerned 20 college students. About half of the scholars used glasses whereas performing CPR on a excessive definition mannikin within the College’s simulation lab. The remaining college students had been within the management group and went by way of the train the way in which they might usually do, with out good glasses.

Students within the good glasses group had been fitted with the glasses and taught the best way to use them. They learn over a affected person situation and went into the simulation lab to conduct the train and had been instructed that they might entry an knowledgeable by way of the headset when and in the event that they wanted to take action. According to Bowler, “It was up to the student to decide when to use the glasses to call for an expert.”

“It was helpful to have feedback and to make sure I was doing it right,” CU Nursing pupil Marlee Evans says. She participated within the examine and is within the UCAN (University of Colorado Accelerated Nursing) 2023 cohort. “I think that’s part of why I was able to be calm throughout the scenario. If I was doing something wrong, I could be corrected.”

Ozkaynak, Bowler, and Kebapci will acquire information, take a look at the video recordings, and analyze pupil suggestions. They wish to see how good glasses can play a task in increasing entry to care in rural areas or in hospitals. They say the expertise may very well be helpful for brand new nurses beginning out of their careers.

Computer display screen exhibiting view from good glasses.

“I think the advantages are you get real-time feedback,” Evans says. “The auditory feedback was helpful because I could focus on how I feel, which will be important if I’m actually doing CPR, instead of that visual feedback I’m used to getting [with other simulations].”

“(The technology) can help patient outcomes, enhance nursing training, and give information for nurses that don’t have certain training,” Bowler says. “This study hopes to use the research to improve student learning in controlled environments, advance nursing education, and expand the roles of nurses.”

Ozkaynak, Bowler, and Kebapci plan to current their findings subsequent July on the sixteenth International Congress in Nursing Informatics (NI2024).