Sigma Nursing has partnered with Shift—a healthcare education company that uses immersive technology and training to deliver proven results—to bring you the Virtual Mini Academy: Health Equity Training. This academy is designed to help healthcare professionals understand and practice diversity, equity, and inclusion and to develop the motivation to change behaviors and improve nurse and patient outcomes. Topics addressed over the course of the 10-week academy include demystifying bias; discovering personal values; equality, equity, and justice; empathy and belonging, and more.

 Academy participants will view brief multimedia lessons that easily fit into a busy schedule and will receive tools to support ongoing success. They will have opportunities to openly discuss their learning experience with other participants.

Immersive and interactive video technology, including a 360 component, are utilized to promote success. A virtual reality (VR) component is available for institutions and universities with the proper equipment. The virtual reality component guides scholars through life-like experiences to demonstrate disparities and inequities in action.

Applications for the Virtual Mini Academy: Health Equity Training are now open and close on 23 August. Learn more and apply.

About Sigma

The Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma) is a nonprofit organization with the mission of developing nurse leaders anywhere to improve healthcare everywhere. Founded in 1922, Sigma has more than 100,000 active members and 600 chapters at institutions of higher education and healthcare partners from Armenia, Australia, and Botswana to Thailand, the United States, and Wales. Sigma members include clinical nurses and administrators, academic nurse educators and researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and others working to fulfill the organization’s vision of connected, empowered nurse leaders transforming global healthcare. Learn more at www.SigmaNursing.org.