Virtual Reality: A Health Patterning Modality for Nursing in Space (Clinical Report‪)‬

ABSTRACT Virtual reality (VR) is a computergenerated reality that creates the illusion that the physical body is manifesting in a place where the physical body is not located. VR represents anew frontier in the human-environment mutual process for use on Earth and in space. In 1988 a NASA researcher proposed that within a decade VR technology will be mass produced. It has also been suggested that we will all eventually be able to go into space via this technology. Hence, the possibility exists for using VR in nursing in space in the near future.