Innovation Center A Virtual Pregnancy for Pre‐Licensure Nursing Students: Nine Months Up and Close

Abstract

The Virtual Pregnancy Model (VPM) blends emergent educational technology designed to facilitate student learning and obstetrical concepts. Content is incorporated via YouTube videos and grounded in experiential learning through encounters with a pregnant virtual character. Students demonstrated increased performance on pre and post testing and perceived that the VPM enhanced their knowledge of obstetrical concepts while also increasing their proficiency in specified nursing competencies.