AUTHOR=Li Xia , Zhou Yaoqun , Xue Miao 

TITLE=NurseVerse: nursing in the metaverse era

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Medicine

VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2025

YEAR=2025

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/medicine/articles/10.3389/fmed.2025.1577153

DOI=10.3389/fmed.2025.1577153

ISSN=2296-858X

ABSTRACT=Although the metaverse is still in its early exploratory stage in the field of nursing, it is gradually demonstrating its potential in digital health and telemedicine care, transforming the traditional nurse–patient interaction model through digital tools and the internet. The “metaverse” represents the merging of two worlds into an immersive, online, virtual, connected environment in which participants actively engage with 3D content and interact using digital avatars. The metaverse entails many possibilities and challenges in attempts to introduce new methods of nursing. This technology has many applications, particularly with respect to assisting in surgery, enhancing chronic disease management, reshaping nursing education, promoting telemedicine, and facilitating psychological interventions. While obstacles may be encountered in various areas, such as trust and security, technology, legislation and regulation, the use of non-fungible tokens as a secure asset for patient data is a potential solution to these issues.