Improve your hand hygiene in virtual reality
Tork VR Clean Hands Training and Education is a fun and interactive game, specifically designed to make hand hygiene training more engaging and inspiring than ever before. Take on the role of a nurse or physician, put on your VR-headset and get ready to start a new shift in the virtual ward. In a series of real life situations, you get to practice on each of WHO's 5 moments for hand hygiene – using your own hands. Did you not comply with WHO's guidelines the first time? Give it a new try, and you will soon have excellent hand hygiene standards – both in the virtual and real world.
Download the app
All you need to get going is a VR compatible smartphone, a VR headset with remote control or equivalent to steer the game, and the Tork VR Training app. The app is available via AppStore and Google Play.
For Iphones/IOS we recommend: Merge VR headset (no remote control needed for this headset you will click on the headset to steer the game); https://www.amazon.com/Merge-Goggles-Augmented-Adjustable-Comfortable/dp/B015CD6NVE
For Android phones: There is a wide range of VR headsets to choose from depending on what phone you have. Everything from cardboard versions to more expensive headsets work fine. Important: Please remember that you need a Bluetooth Remote Controller to steer the game.
How to download:
- Make sure you have VR goggles that works with your Smartphone
- Download the app to your phone via AppStore or GooglePlay
- Connect the remote controller to your phone via Bluetooth
- Start the app and place the Smartphone in your VR goggles
- Adjust and calibrate
- Step into our virtual world and chose if you want to play nurse or physican
Virtual reality for deeper learning
Virtual reality not only makes training fun and engaging, it is also highly effective in driving behavioral change. According to research , people only remember 10% of what we read, 20% of what we hear and 30% of what we see. However, when doing or simulating an action, we remember as much as 90%.
Training based on latest research
Tork VR Training is based on WHO's guidelines on hand hygiene in healthcare. To make it an effective tool for driving behavioral change and improving hand hygiene compliance, we have developed the game in close collaboration with University Hospitals, behavioral scientists and other experts.
Did you know?
- 1 in 4 healthcare workers are unsure whether their hand hygiene lives up to guidelines.
- 8 in 10 would like to receive better hand hygiene training.
- Current training is considered too theoretical, boring and passive.
- 1 in 2 want hand hygiene training to be based on facts and latest research.
- Almost 1 in 5 say it’s very important that their training is interactive, fun and engaging.
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