Simulation Center

The College of Health Sciences Healthcare Simulation Center is a 10,200 sq ft of state-of-the-art facility. The simulation center models hospital practice settings, and educational technologies in both software and high-fidelity manikins.  Students develop and apply their initial nursing skills, critical thinking, and clinical reasoning in preparation for the clinical practice experiences.

The Center includes 4 immersive simulation rooms each with a high-fidelity manikin, control room and de-briefing room to accommodate cohorts of 10-12 students. There are also 2 skills lab/classrooms each with 6 hospital beds, 1 gurney, and 1 exam table. The skills labs house a mid-fidelity manikin in each of the hospital beds plus counter/tabletop room for task trainers such as IV arms and trach care.

Each patient cubicle will be individually curtained, have headwalls for oxygen/suction availability plus bedside computers for recording on EHR software and doing assessments. The skills rooms will be large enough for an area of table and chairs for a classroom-type setting accommodating 15-20 students for delivery of pedagogy to support skills development The simulation center design has a reception area and offices for the simulation coordinator and faculty; locker rooms for students to change from street wear into scrubs; prep room and ample storage space.