For nursing schools
Students talk to AI patients across multi-day cases from a phone or laptop. Faculty get rubric-scored results in one dashboard.
The clinical placement shortage is real: placements are scarce and lab hours are full. The pressure lands on faculty.
New faculty often inherit a course with little orientation, and the next cohort is already on the way.
The same hours have to cover teaching, office hours, paperwork and remote learners.
With placements short, faculty are asked to build simulated experiences that were never in the job description.
Hospital and facility professional development educators face the same pressures. Source: Aldhafeeri, N. A., & Alanazi, F. J. (2024). Intent to leave academia: Perceptions and challenges of nurse faculty. BMC Nursing, 23, 506. doi.org/10.1186/s12912-024-02137-y · PMC11283686
An example four-week med-surg module. Your faculty choose the cases, the pacing and the due dates.
MiRA loads your roster. Faculty assign an AI patient to each student and set due dates in the faculty dashboard.
Faculty time: assigning cases and due dates. MiRA handles the roster.
Students review objectives, then meet the patient. The focus is recognizing cues on Day 1.
Faculty time: none during encounters. Check completion in the dashboard.
The patient changes. Students reassess, reconcile medications and decide when to escalate.
Faculty time: review the Needs Attention list.
Students confirm the patient is back to baseline and run discharge teaching with teach-back.
Faculty time: spot-check flagged teach-back transcripts.
Faculty debrief on the cues most of the cohort missed and reassign cases where needed.
Faculty time: one debrief built from the cohort's missed cues.
Most programs start with one course and one cohort, then decide from their own data.
Pick a course, a cohort and the patient cases that match its objectives.
We load the roster and walk faculty through assigning cases. Students sign in with one login.
Students practice on their own schedule. Faculty track completion and scores as they come in.
Together we look at completion, performance and cohort gaps, and decide on next steps.
Pricing is set per program. See nursing simulation pricing.
Standards
Each case is built around recognizing cues and acting on them. See how a case maps to the clinical judgment model.
Scenarios can be designed around domains such as Person-Centered Care, Quality and Safety, and Interprofessional Partnerships.
Designed with the Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice™ in mind: defined objectives, prebriefing, in-scenario guidance and debriefing.
Designed to support FERPA-aligned handling of student data, with access controls considered throughout the pipeline.
See the full standards crosswalk
NCLEX® and Next Generation NCLEX® are registered trademarks of NCSBN. Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best Practice™ is a trademark of INACSL. MiRA Clinical is not affiliated with or endorsed by NCSBN, AACN, or INACSL.
Virtual simulation lets nursing students practice patient care on a screen instead of in a physical lab. In MiRA, students speak to an AI patient out loud, the patient responds, and the case continues across several simulated days. Faculty see rubric-scored results for every student.
The MiRA team loads your roster and walks faculty through assigning cases. During the term, students practice on their own and scoring runs automatically, so faculty time goes to reviewing results and leading debriefs rather than observing sessions.
Cases arrive ready to assign, with prebrief, rubric and debrief points built in, so a new instructor can use MiRA in the first week of a role. We walk each faculty member through the dashboard before a pilot starts.
No. MiRA extends the lab. Manikin and standardized patient sessions stay where hands-on skills matter. MiRA adds repeatable, voice-based practice between lab sessions so students arrive better prepared and faculty can see who needs more support.
It depends on your state board of nursing and your program policy. Rules on how many virtual clinical hours can substitute for in-person clinical hours differ by state and change over time. Check your board's current rule before counting MiRA time toward required hours.
A phone or computer with a microphone and an internet connection. Students sign in with one login and see only the AI patients their faculty assigned. There is nothing to install in the lab.
MiRA is designed to support FERPA-aligned handling of student data. Faculty see results only for their own students, and screenshots shared outside the program have names removed. We review data handling with each school before a pilot starts.
Students repeat cases as often as they need, outside lab and facility hours, with no risk to a patient.
Every student meets the same patient, objectives and rubric, across sections and campuses.
Grow the cohort without growing the hours faculty spend observing and scoring.
New patients, new specialties and updates as practice standards change. Coming next: chest pain, fall risk and respiratory distress.
A 30-minute walkthrough with a patient case matched to one of your courses.
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