Minor Healthcare Technology develops Escape Room as a digital education tool
27-01-2020
How can you train the healthcare professional + functionally, with the fun factor also getting a role? Students from the Minor Care Technology were presented with this challenge from their client in the field: Vivium Naarderheem. This is a care group that helps people further when it comes to independent living, rehabilitation, good care, a suitable living situation or a pleasant life. Margriet Pol, researcher at Digital Life, is the module coordinator of this Minor.
With a background in engineering (Mechatronics Robotics and Mechanical Engineering) or Physiotherapy or Movement Technology, five students have worked hard in recent months to effectively bring care and technology together.
The concrete assignment has resulted in researching and designing an escape room. This has shown that practical learning on the basis of such an escape room is effective. Participants must collect codes on the basis of various assignments and try to escape from a locked room in a predetermined time.
This room must contain various elements of care, such as clinical reasoning and practice with specific skills. In this way, students of the "Healthcare Professional +" study can learn and practice new skills in a practical way.
The escape room prepared for this Minor is based on care protocols and the development of competencies for the care professional. The intention is for the next group of students to take over from this same minor when it comes to carrying out follow-up work for the further development of the escape room. For example, there is a desire to make the escape room mobile, so that you can work with this digital education tool at multiple locations of Vivium - 13 in total.
The current escape room ended with a positive assessment and will certainly be continued in practice!