Ready. Set. Game: Using Nursing Knowledge to Escape the Virtual Room in the Didactic Setting

Georgianna Scott; Teresa Bowers; Shelli P Gibbs; Joan M Creed; Leigh B Pate

doi:10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000001162

Ready. Set. Game: Using Nursing Knowledge to Escape the Virtual Room in the Didactic Setting

Nurs Educ Perspect. 2023 Jun 20. doi: 10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000001162. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Georgianna Scott¹, Teresa Bowers, Shelli P Gibbs, Joan M Creed, Leigh B Pate

Affiliation

¹ About the Authors The authors are faculty at the University of South Carolina College of Nursing, Columbia, South Carolina. Georgianna Scott, DNP, RN, CCRN-K, CNE, is associate professor. Teresa Bowers, DNP, APRN, ACNP-BC, is assistant professor. Shelli P. Gibbs, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, is director of the Family Nurse Practitioner Program and associate professor. Joan M. Creed, DNP, MN, RN, CCM, is associate professor. Leigh B. Pate, DNP, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, is associate professor. For more information, contact Dr. Gibbs at purvissb@mailbox.sc.edu.

PMID: 37404040
DOI: 10.1097/01.NEP.0000000000001162

Abstract

Most virtual escape rooms are built using Google documents that ask a series of questions; our faculty team wanted to provide a more interactive experience in a large classroom and created a virtual escape room that mimicked the Next Generation NCLEX testing platform. Each room contained a case study with multiple-choice questions. Seventy-three of 98 possible students completed the escape room survey. All recommended this activity to other students, and 91 percent said they preferred the game format more than the lecture format. Virtual escape rooms are interactive, engaging, and can be used successfully to bridge theory to practice.