Harper University Hospital

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In the simulation hospital we have 4 medical/surgical rooms. They all have high fidelity simulators. We have 2 obstetrics labor and deliver manikins, pediatrics, a full nursery, we have SimMan3G with the ER/ICU. We have everything from ventilators to accu-checks to crash carts that are all functioning, computers on wheels, electronic medical records, medication management systems, scanning - we try to do everything we see in our community hospitals. We opened up this hospital in February of 2010. It was an awesome experience that our school, our college, embraced technology. to bring the cutting edge here to Harper. This is one example of excellence in education. Our students are put in a realistic situation of a hospital setting and we try to reenact what they are going to see in their community hospital experiences - diabetics, seizures, neuro - and we give them a safe environment, that's really important. They can learn. They have classroom, they'll learn about it and we'll transform it right here in the hospital and make it realistic. We have a very unique opportunity to have simulation integrated into all of our nursing courses. There are 300 students and in each of the nursing courses we do have simulation included in their courses, in the lab. Simulation does offer the students the opportunity to practice in very unique situations. They are involved in situations in which they can make an error and it's a safe environment for the nursing students to practice. Are you ok? Oh he's bleeding. I'm going to need help in here he pulled out his central line. I need pressure dressings and a mask. When we do simulations here in the hospital we have as close to real life experiences as possible. So we get to put our hands on our patients, put our hands on the equipment, learn about what's going on with them and how to intervene with it. It gives us an opportunity to do it in a practice setting. So that we can take it out to the hospitals and do it with real life experience. I feel like we are getting opportunities to perform skills and tasks that we otherwise wouldn't have, and come back and practice as many times as we need to. I think it is state-of-the-art; I think it gives students here a really great opportunity to learn, to practice, to become very proficient in the nursing practice. I feel like it really gives us an advantage over other students who may not have access to facilities like this. It was actually the simulations that helped me realize I was in the right area because it really helps to put things into perspective of what you will see when you actually go to the hospitals and helps you feel a little bit more prepared in an actual scenario. Oh no Henry! What's wrong? He's just throwing up a little. What did you have to eat? These manikins are incredible. They breathe, we can hear lung sounds, bowel sounds. We can put IV fluids in them; we can draw blood from them, as you saw the manikins can vomit. They can hemorrhage, they can seize, they can become blue, some of them sweat. It's amazing what these manikins can do. Ok here we go Dad, come take a look. Take deep breathe, big push, big push, there we go! Ok Dad, want to cut the cord? Compared to lecture or lab, it definitely throws us in there and we really have to put everything we learned together into one situation. So it definitely shows you how much you're retaining, what you need to work on, your strengths. I feel very lucky to be part of it and I was very glad they had finished it before we graduated so we can utilize it as much as we could. Its really good practice to have a hospital setting because if you forget certain things or if you mess up you're not doing it on a real patient. We've gotten experience with critical care patients, emergency patients; we've learned to take care of laboring women and children who are sick. Working with the teachers the way that you have to in the simulation has also helped my learning experience. Its put me at more of a comfortable situation where I can ask questions and I can get feedback from them that I normally wouldn't be able to. I think that this is the part of the current practice. I mean this is the expectation, this is evidence based practice, this is information that the students need to have to be able to practice in the acute care environment. The most important thing is safe patient care. That they come from Harper, graduate being safe practitioners. Even simple things like hand washing, being compassionate, good communication skills, safety above all, embracing patient care.