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Table 2 Consequences for virtual patient presentation

From: Using interviews and observations in clinical practice to enhance authenticity in virtual patients for interprofessional education

Sub-themes

Analytic codes

Consequences for the VP

Nursing

Nutrition

We have included more values for nutrition such as mini-nutritional assessments

Initial handling

Medical history

The anamnesis (the interview with the patient) and the medical history were enriched with more and explicit information from the patients, answering questions concerning their everyday situation and well-being or pain from the leg ulcer.

Action

Treatment

Wound dressings and explanations of their various functions were added. Medical investigations were added as a part of general investigations.

Lack of teamwork

Lack of cooperation

The reports present documentation only from nurses at the primary care setting and nothing from a GP concerning the leg ulcer. Reflects current practice and are cause for students’ discussion.

Learning

Learning together

More distinct medical history and exclusion of details that might confuse the students

Responsibilities

Shared responsibility

We included more photos showing different situations of teamwork in order to make the VPs more realistic and illustrate the shared responsibility.

  1. Table 2 showing relations between analysis and the consequences for our VPs