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T-Mobile Kicks-Off 5G Research Challenge with University of Kansas to Transform the Future of Nursing
What’s the news: T-Mobile and students at the University of Kansas are teaming up this fall to research and develop 5G solutions that can revolutionize the
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nWhat’s the news: T-Mobile and students at the University of Kansas are teaming up this fall to research and develop 5G solutions that can revolutionize the future of nursing. \n\nWhy it matters: With the move to virtual education, creative new approaches using advanced technology to train healthcare workers and nursing students is needed now more than ever. \n\nWho it’s for: Anyone that relies on nurses for their health and well-being – so basically everyone. \n\n OVERLAND PARK, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nHow can 5G transform the future of nursing? That’s the challenge T-Mobile and students at the University of Kansas are taking on this fall semester. T-Mobile, KU School of Nursing (SON) and the KU Center for Design Research (CDR) have teamed up through a Capstone Research Project to help students develop new training methods and tools that could revolutionize how nursing is taught at the University of Kansas School of Nursing and beyond.\n\nCDR students working with technical experts at T-Mobile are researching potential solutions that combine the use of 5G technologies, distance learning principles, and design thinking. They’ll explore new ways to use virtual and augmented reality as a teaching tool, and advance understanding of the role artificial intelligence can play in a clinical environment. This multi-year program aims to find new and creative ways to educate and train nurses across a variety of settings – whether they are attending a university, conducting research in a lab or working in a rural clinic or large metropolitan hospital.\n\n“With the onset of COVID-19 we quickly moved to a virtual nursing education program and now more than ever see the need for creative new approaches using advanced technology to educate nursing students at all levels,” said Cynthia Teel, PhD, RN, FAAN, Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, KU School of Nursing. “We’re incredibly excited about the future of our educational programs and we also see a tremendous opportunity to advance how nursing is taught in this country.”\n\n“The worldwide pandemic has touched everyone from the most advanced urban centers to isolated rural villages. But with adversity comes opportunity,” said Gregory Thomas, Professor/Director, Center for Design Research. “Our nursing education has to be expanded. Students must learn their profession with ease and with tools t...