In Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine: Reality Check

In Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine: Reality Check

Associate Dean Kristen Brown has seen the opportunities an education can bring and is determined that no student under her watch will miss them. That attitude is built into the decision-making on new tech for her Center for Simulation & Immersive Learning. “Everybody is going to want to sell you on the next big thing,” Brown says. 

One thing Brown is sold on is the XR Learning Hub, a pilot education platform she’s fine-tuning at JHSON that combines her clinical experience and passion for immersive learning with cutting-edge tech to fix common issues with clinical training for students. Her aim is to make clinical experiences more flexible, available, and—the big key—controllable. “You can’t predict what situations a learner will encounter while on a clinical rotation, but with simulation, you can make sure they are exposed to what they need and must see.”

The XR Hub is a virtual space that allows the learner to engage with faculty and then travel through portals to environments, such as the hospital bedside, and experience care through the eyes of a provider, of course, but also a patient.