Facilities replicated
September 2012
by Rosanne Fohn
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
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
 Maternal/child center
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
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