Virtual simulation in Nursing Education: A Randomised Controlled trial during Covid-19 crisis period

Nursing students need to learn and relate theory and practices ensuring quality and safety  of the patients. In todays Covid scenario it has become challenging to provide clinical experience in social distancing situation. classroom teachings are also not feasible. virtual clinical simulation will be able to replace clinical hours for students enrolled in nursing program. teaching with virtual simulation offers opportunities to experience in common situations that students are likely to encounter in clinical settings. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of Virtual clinical simulation as a method of teaching Vs Low technology simulation in terms of knowledge, student satisfaction, self efficacy and clinical reasoning.. This prospective RCT on 52 PG nursing students will be conducted in two phases, phase I is development of coding for physiological algorithm and phase II is testing the algorithm on students. After enrolment of the students for trail pre test will be done and then post test after implementation of intervention. One group will be provided education through low technology simulation. Both groups will be compared for outcomes.