Virtual Reality Training for Obstetric and Neonatal Care Quality

This study will test a new virtual reality (VR) Indigenous cultural safety training designed for hospital nurses attending births and caring for sick babies. The training (study Arm #1) includes two one-hour sessions that each include a VR encounter with a virtual Indigenous patient. This will compared to two one hour sessions of unrelated online clinical training (study Arm #2). Participant nurses will be randomly put into one of these two study arms. The study team will then assess whether or not the training improved Indigenous patient care outcomes using live Indigenous actors performing as patients. Participating nurses will be scheduled to assess these mock patients 10-12 weeks after their training. The quality of care they provide during these mock patient encounters will be rated using standard scales. They study hypothesis is that nurses who take the virtual reality Indigenous patient encounter training will have better relational engagement and provide higher quality clinical care during the Indigenous standardized patient encounter compared to nurses who were randomized to the unrelated clinical online training.