VR technology addresses cybersickness in Nursing students
VR technology addresses cybersickness in Nursing students
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An officer in the School of Nursing Simulation Laboratory at the University of the Free State (UFS) is aiming to cure or minimise cybersickness in Nursing students with a popular virtual reality gaming tool.
Bennie Botha, who is acting as head of Information, Communication and Simulation Technology in the School of Nursing Simulation Laboratory, has developed a virtual environment in which Nursing students use immersive VR to perform a simulation scenario. This is part of his master’s degree in Computer Science and Informatics under the supervision of Dr Lizette de Wet and co-supervisor Prof Yvonne Botma.
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The University of the Free State (UFS) has moved up in the Centre for World University Rankings (CWUR).
The UFS was among 13 South African universities that featured in the recent 2021-22 list of 2000 universities compiled by the CWUR.
On the University of the Free State s (UFS) website, it is reported that the university has been improving its rankings recently and this has led to the university overtaking the University of the Western Cape to be ranked eighth, after being in position nine the previous year. The UFS now ranks 1163rd globally.
Prof. Francis Petersen, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of UFS, promised that the university will continue working hard for even greater results. âThis is a significant achievement, and I am proud that the UFS could rise in the rankings. The CWUR is the largest academic ranking of global universities. We will continue working towards achieving an even greater result next year,â said Prof
A lot has happened in 2020 and more will happen in the future. The Covid-19 pandemic brought various challenges to the healthcare system and nurses have been at the coalface of these challenges.
Prof. Chitja Twala
The network of safe houses in exile and the hosts remain significant in South Africa’s freedom celebration. This is according to Prof. Chitja Twala of the History Department at the University of the Free State (UFS).
Twala noted this against the backdrop of South Africa observing Freedom Day on 27 April.
The network housed freedom fighters who left South Africa as they were targeted by the apartheid regime forces. The safe houses were set up in countries like Lesotho, Botswana, Zambia, Mozambique and Swaziland.
“After the apartheid regime banned liberation organisations such as the ANC, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and others in the 1960s, these movements established networks of safe houses inside and outside the country,” Twala explained.
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