Facilities replicated

The School of Nursing’s Simulation Center & Clinical Learning Lab offers a wide variety of hospital and home health environments, including:

• Trauma center – modeled after University Health System’s facility; two trauma exam rooms and one trauma emergency care room

 

• Intensive care unit – two rooms constructed as a replica of new construction at University Hospital

 

• Home health center – designed as an efficiency apartment to demonstrate to students the importance of care provided in homes

 

• Multi-bed educational center – four-bed medical/surgical unit where students will experience the dynamic environment of practicing on the floor of the hospital; allows medical teams to manage multiple patients at once; each room equipped with specialty hospital beds and high-fidelity manikins

 

• Pediatric care suite – includes three infant cribs, one child’s bed, and four high-fidelity manikins

 

• Ambulatory care suite – four treatment sites where students will experience the clinical environment of an ambulatory center

 

Maternal/child center – two mother-baby birthing suites, where students will experience the care of mother and baby from labor and delivery to postpartum care

 

• Simulation conference room – a debriefing site for faculty to work with students in unraveling the meanings and lessons inherent in each experience within the simulation center
  Medication and supply rooms – these rooms house the automated medication dispensing system for medicines, all necessary supplies and electronic medical records for the center

 

• Four control rooms – where the manikins, and audio and video equipment are managed without the knowledge of the simulation participants