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CCER Grand Opening!
Following a celebratory ribbon cutting, you will have the chance “to treat” lifelike simulated patients in surroundings that duplicate actual hospital and fitness training conditions. Come experience how this high tech, state-of-the-art facility will improve the safety and quality of care provided by UMass Boston students and graduates.
When: April 9, 2008 at 5:30 p.m.
Where: The Center for Clinical Education and Research, in the Science Building
RSVP: events@umb.edu or 617-287-5312
A REVOLUTION IN LEARNING
Imagine that you’ve just graduated from a baccalaureate nursing program. In the classroom you’ve gained a solid understanding of the science and social context of health care, and you’ve also benefited from many hours of clinical instruction. Now it’s your third day on the job at a major hospital—and the elderly patient in room 1611 is in cardiac arrest. You were an excellent student at an excellent school, but by chance nothing like this occurred during your clinical training. Are you really ready? In the rush of the emergency, can you trust yourself to know what to do and do it correctly? Does the staff around you have time to guide you when speed is critical and there’s no room for mistakes? Could you have been better prepared for this moment?
Until recently, no new nurse could be truly prepared for such a moment, because there was no good way for nursing students to experience a full range of healthcare scenarios without risk to patients. But now there is. Thanks to remarkable advances in technology, students can treat lifelike simulated patients in surroundings that duplicate actual hospital conditions, and their performances can be recorded for later review and discussion with faculty members. In these powerful new forms of teaching and learning, UMass Boston’s College of Nursing and Health Sciences is taking the lead.
THESE ARE OUR PLANS
Imagine a fully equipped, state-of-the-art, ready-for-the-future Center for Clinical Education and Research for nursing and exercise and health science students where—simultaneously—all these activities are taking place:
- In the critical care room, “SimMan” displays the symptoms of a “code blue” heart attack. Students respond as part of a team that also includes staff members from one of Boston’s finest hospitals.
- In the exercise testing lab, students perform a cardiac stress test using the mobile metabolic cart.
- Medical-surgical students in the computer lab are using MicroSim virtual hospital scenarios to prepare for a learning session.
- In the clinical simulation room, students in a pediatric group realize that “SimBaby” is exhibiting shaken-baby syndrome.
- Another group in the medication simulation room practices administering pediatric medication with “smart IV pumps.”
- Faculty members in the AV studio control and videorecord the code-blue and shaken-baby simulations. In the exercise and health science lab a class practices advanced CPR with a “Resusci Anne” mannequin.
- In an exam room, students perform and videorecord a simulated pelvic exam.
- A class meets in the clinical teaching center for an interactive session on respiratory nursing, viewing the code-blue simulation and then practicing techniques with “VitalSim” mannequins and bedside equipment.
- In the tutorial/debriefing room, students are instructed while viewing recordings of just-completed simulations. Throughout the center, simulation activities are being observed for a collaborative research study designed to identify best practices in simulation design and implementation.