Subject area:	Medicine and Dentistry
More specific subject area:	Nursing Education
Name of your protocol:	A virtual reality eyes disease experience for undergraduate nursing students: a phenomenological study protocol.
Reagents/tools:	NK 3D VR Glasses for smartphone + NEI VR (See What I See) app.
Experimental design:	Qualitative, multi-centric Phenomenological research. Bachelor nursing students from different universities in Italy will experience eye diseases through a virtual reality APP. Colaizzi's approach will be used to assess student experiences, investigated through an interview, a pre-experience questionnaire and side notes on student behavior during the experience and the interviews.
Trial registration:	N.A.
Ethics:	Following the rules of the ethical committee, the study does not need approval as it falls within the usual training practices without interventions on human beings outside the teaching autonomy provided by law. The training method used in this work will be submitted for approval by the university's campus teaching direction. Participation in the study will be voluntary. Each student intending to participate will be appropriately informed by the researcher and through an appropriate written modular. Students willing to participate to the study will give their informed consent and agree to be recorded during the interview.
Value of the Protocol:	-By the best of our knowledge, in scientific literature, there are no virtual reality experiences on eye disorders carried out by nursing students. -This study will be carried out with readily available materials; this will enable other researchers to replicate the study in different countries around the world. -This is one of the first's Italian studies about the experience of virtual reality in nursing education.