Main Entrance
Student LoungeFor students before/after class to study, socialize, or eat. There are lockers available to use for storage.
Simulation Suite – OB/Pediatric (240 square feet)
Simulated patient, Baby Ryan, lives here. This is the neonatal unit of the lab. There is also an IV simulator where students can practice using a program that creates scenarios and grades how well they respond. Features:
- Infant/pediatric patient simulator
- May be programmed with 90+ scenarios
- Faculty can change scenarios while students are working
- Birthing suite environment
- Suction and compressed air
- Baby washing sink
Future plans:
- Add Noelle birthing mother simulator
Simulation Control Room
Faculty members can control the simulator, including speech from behind one-way glass for a truly interactive experience.
Simulation Suite - Adult (400 square feet)
Simulated patient, Stan man, lives here. There are over 92 different patient scenarios that can be run on this simulator. Stan’s reactions to treatment include pupil dilation, breathing, and variable pulse rate depending on the actions of the student. Physiological functions are controlled by a faculty member in the control room. Faculty can also provide the voices for the scenarios through a headset and monitor.
Features:
- Adult patient simulator (METI brand) – 1 current
- 2 cubicles with typical intensive care/critical care set-up
- Suction and compressed air
- Hand washing sink
Future plans:
- One additional adult patient simulator
- Add video and monitor to record student activities
- Add computer to aid with simulation
- Add Physio monitor to better replicate ICU/CCU setting
Community Apartment & Home Health Care (366 square feet)
An apartment setting where students can practice providing care to a patient in a home environment.
Features:
- Non ADA compliant apartment
- Typical home safety and health hazards
Future Plans:
Undergraduate Teaching & Learning Lab (Ellipse) (2677 square feet)
Where most of the clinical lab classes take place. There are four sections which contain a teacher to student ratio of 1:10 to 1:12. This is where the students learn and practice mobility, injections, IVs, trachs, medication, etc. There are a total of 24 hospital beds.
Features:
- Typical hospital setting
- 24 exam beds
- 12 headwalls with suction and compressed air
- 8 sinks, including 2 with foot controls & 2 with electronic controls
- 1 LCD projector/projection screen
- Flexible space to accommodate 1 to 4 clinical classes at a time
- 2 medication stations
ClassroomLecture classes take place here. Able to accommodate 20-25 students. There is a two way window for viewing simulations that take place in the Sim Room.
Psychiatric Interview Room (100 square feet)
A place where students can practice their interviewing skills and take practice health histories on their peers.
Features:
- In-person and/or video observation and monitoring capabilities
- Therapist office set-up
Reflection SpaceLike a quiet sanctuary where students and faculty can go to have quiet reflective time.
Conference RoomMeetings take place here. There is a great view of the city on a clear day.
Research Commons (700 square feet)
Features:
- 8 computer stations grouped in clusters to facilitate collaborative work
Future Plans:
- Research space for newly funded and planned faculty positions, including:
- Premera Endowed Professorship in Cancer Nursing
- Endowed Nursing Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Health
Faculty and Administration
Clinical Practice Lab (1039 square feet)
Students can come in on their own time for an open lab to practice. During finals, professors use this room as a set up for open lab. Sometimes classes take place here as well.
Features:
- 4 exam beds
- Computer
- 1 Baby washing sink
- Central class area with conference table, 12 chairs and LCD projector/screen
Future Plans: Virtual ICU
- Space will be equipped with physiological monitors
- Computers will link to real-time(anonymous) data from actual ICU patients currently in the hospital
- Faculty and students can monitor and react to real-time data
Clinical Exam Core (1600 square feet)
Also known as the grad lab, this is the most expensive room in the entire lab and is for graduate student use only. There are individual rooms that each contains cameras. On the outside you can view the room with a joystick and two different camera angles. You can record on these cameras, and all the rooms show up on the main screen in the middle of the room for a professor to view all the exam rooms at once.
Features:
- Typical private practice or clinc setting
- 6 exam rooms with exam tables, sinks, video monitoring & one-way mirror windows for observation
- Waiting room and 2 changing rooms
- Central discussion core with conference table for 8, video/audio monitoring station
Simulated Hospital Bathroom
Hope Heart Institute Office
Computer LabOpen to all students. The lab is also used for ATI and HESI exams.
