Clinical Simulation
Physical Therapy Aide
About This Course
What you'll experience
A Physical Therapy Aide is an important member of the healthcare delivery system. It requires a range of skill-sets that help the aides perform their tasks with expertise and finesse. The patient should feel at ease working with the aide and face the least possible discomfort in the process. This VR program is designed to help physical therapy aides practice their skills is a safe environment with virtual patients.
Learning Objectives
- Positioning and turning a patient
- Assisting with a patient transfer using a transfer belt
- Training and assisting a patient to efficiently use crutches
- Practicing perform a range of motion exercises
- Practicing the skill of ascending and descending a wheelchair with a seated patient
References
- Developed in alignment with Physical Therapy Aide – A Worktext by Roberta C. Weiss (3rd Edition).
What you'll practice
Core Skills Training
Core Skill
Positioning and Turning a Patient
A patient may be confined to bed for any number of reasons. To prevent sores and to maintain a healthy circulation, it is important to regularly turn and position the patient every couple of hours. For patients with fragile skin and decreased sensation, this process may have to be done more frequently. The physical therapy aide is required to exercise care and caution while performing this procedure. This VR training program ensures the learner performs each step in the process as required in real-life scenarios, giving enough practice to do it with confidence and accuracy with real patients.
Tailored to You
Customize Your Program
MedVR Education is bringing to you in-VR customization that will enable you to customize your procedural simulations by making selections from a range of feature choices.
- Select patient from a diverse background
- Choose preferred virtual environment
- Select equipment used in the procedure
- Modify difficulty level of the assessment mode
- …..many more to come
Additional customization options are available and can be developed to meet your specific training needs.
How it works
Training
With prompts, guidance and affordances learners are hand-held through the process to practice the procedure in a virtual environment with a virtual patient.
- Photorealistic Virtual Environment
- Physics-based Interactions
- Learn by Doing
- Visual Affordances
Measure progress
Assessment
Test skills to perform the procedures from start to finish without prompts. An incorrect step will take the learner back to the start to start afresh.
- Live Scoring
- Instant Feedback
- Unlimited Practice Sessions
- LMS Integration
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