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.

美国人口老龄化的加剧预示着对老年护理的需求不断增加。人类技术前沿工作未来 (FW-HTF) 规划项目将探讨老年护理护理的未来，以及如何将智能沉浸式虚拟现实 (IIVR) 用作护士和其他医疗保健专业人员的培训平台。高级护理设施。 IIVR 是一项很有前途的技术，它通过集成人工智能技术来扩展和推进现有的沉浸式 VR，并有潜力以低成本提供高保留率的高效培训解决方案。 IIVR 可用于护士培训，以弥补当前护士技能与未来需求之间的差距。研究人员还研究了如何减少在高级护理机构的护士培训中使用 IIVR 的障碍。因此，本研究支持高级护理护士队伍的发展，并探索采用转型技术的方法，使护士做好准备，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。这项工作的总体目标是加强未来的培训以及保留在高级护理机构工作的护士。为了实现这一目标，一个由在 IIVR、认知科学、老年护理以及数据分析和建模方面具有专业知识的专业人士组成的融合团队将调查：1) 老年护理机构未来的护理需求以及 IIVR 已经或可以被利用的程度（未来的工作）； 2) 当前高级护理护士与未来需求之间的技能差距以及 IIVR 如何弥合这一差距（未来工作者）； 3）为了解未来高级护理护士的培训需求而构建的 IIVR 平台（未来技术）。来自养老机构、养老技术提供商、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，加上定量分析（例如统计分析、文本挖掘）以及 IIVR 原型开发和评估，将突出使用 IIVR 培训在高级护理机构工作的护士的潜力和风险。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并具有通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。