FW-HTF-P: Supporting Nurse Workforce Development in Future Senior Care Facilities Using Intelligent Immersive Virtual Reality

FW-HTF-P：使用智能沉浸式虚拟现实支持未来高级护理机构的护士队伍发展

• 批准号: 2222485
• 负责人: Junfeng Ma
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Mississippi State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2024-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2222485&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FW; HTF; Supporting; Nurse; Workforce

The growing aging population in the United States presages an increasing need for senior care nursing. This Future of Work at the Human Technology Frontier (FW-HTF) planning project will explore the future of nursing in geriatric care and how Intelligent Immersive Virtual Reality (IIVR) can be used as a training platform for nurses and other health care professionals working in senior care facilities. IIVR is a promising technology that expands and advances existing immersive VR by integrating Artificial Intelligence technologies and has the potential to provide an efficient training solution with a high retention rate at low cost. IIVR might be used in nurse training to bridge the gap between current nurse skills and future requirements. The investigators also examine how to reduce barriers to utilizing IIVR in nurse training in senior care facilities. Thus, this research supports the development of the senior care nurse workforce and explores methods to adapt transforming technologies to prepare nurses to fulfill future senior care needs and enhance the quality of future senior care services.The overarching goal of this work is to enhance future training and retention of nurses working in senior care facilities. To achieve this goal, a convergent team of professionals with expertise in IIVR, cognitive science, senior care, and data analysis and modeling will investigate: 1) Future nursing requirements in senior care facilities and the degree that IIVR has been or can be exploited (Future Work); 2) The skillset gap between current senior care nurses and future requirements and how IIVR might bridge this gap (Future Workers); and 3) An IIVR platform constructed to understand the training needs of future senior care nurses (Future Technology). Stakeholders from senior care facilities, senior care technology providers, government agencies, nursing schools, and VR solution providers will participate in multidisciplinary interviews, surveys, and roundtables. These stakeholder discussions, together with quantitative analysis (e.g., statistical analysis, text mining) and IIVR prototype development and evaluation will highlight both the potential and risks of using IIVR for training nurses working in senior care facilities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

美国衰老人口不断增长的人口越来越需要对高级护理护理的需求。人类技术领域（FW-HTF）计划项目的这一工作未来将探讨老年护理中护理的未来以及如何将智能的沉浸式虚拟现实（IIVR）用作护士和其他在高级护理机构工作的培训平台。 IIVR是一项有前途的技术，可以通过整合人工智能技术来扩展和进步现有的沉浸式VR，并有可能以低成本提供高保留率的有效培训解决方案。 IIVR可能用于护士培训，以弥合当前护士技能与未来需求之间的差距。调查人员还研究了如何减少在高级护理设施中使用IIVR进行护士培训的障碍。因此，这项研究支持高级护理护士劳动力的发展，并探讨了适应转型技术的方法，以准备护士以满足未来的高级护理需求并提高未来高级护理服务的质量。这项工作的超大目标是增强未来培训和在高级护理设施中工作的护士的保留。为了实现这一目标，由IIVR，认知科学，高级护理以及数据分析和建模方面具有专业知识的专业知识的融合团队将研究：1）高级护理设施中未来的护理要求以及IIVR已获得或可以利用IIVR的程度（未来工作）； 2）当前高级护理护士与未来要求之间的技能差距以及IIVR如何弥合这一差距（未来工人）； 3）IIVR平台构建，旨在了解未来的高级护理护士（未来技术）的培训需求。高级护理设施，高级护理技术提供商，政府机构，护理学校和VR解决方案提供商的利益相关者将参加多学科访谈，调查和圆桌会议。这些利益相关者的讨论以及定量分析（例如，统计分析，文本挖掘）和IIVR原型开发和评估将突出指出在高级护理设施中使用IIVR进行培训护士的潜在和风险。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基础的智力来评估了基础的智力和广泛的评估。