B 14 SPECIAL SESSION: Imagination, Immersion, and Nursing Interventions: Are VR-CAVEs Portals to High-level Wellness?

Sunday, 30 October 2011: 11:00 AM-12:15 PM
Description/Overview: Dr. Patricia Brennan of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, currently leads the Wisconsin Technology Enhanced Collaborative Nursing Education project, a state-wide nursing initiative supported by US Department of Health and Human Service Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to improve the integration of informatics into nursing curricula.
Learner Objective #1: Envision nursing interventions.
Learner Objective #2: Compare cognitive-behavioral approaches to health behavior change with novel strategies enabled by emerging technologies.
Organizers:  Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD, FAAN, FACMI, School of Nursing and College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Moderators:  Beth Baldwin Tigges, PhD, RN, CPNP, BC, College of Nursing, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM