As a healthcare worker, how often have you or your peers encountered agitation and violence from patients? Unrest in patients could result from drug-induced effects, anxiety, or depression, and at times reaches a level that may need physical restraint. If not managed right, such agitation may escalate, leading to physical and psychological injuries to patients or staff.
Increased reports of this kind call for equipping healthcare workers with newer and better approaches to manage agitation safely and empathically. On this background, NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, Singapore has developed a “virtual reality in agitation management” (VRAM) program for medical and nursing students. The game-like virtual scenario mimics the commonly encountered elements in a clinical setting such as patients with psychosis, hallucinations, paranoia, follow up requests from nurses and kin, and…
