Technology Learning Complex
State-of-the-science facilities that combine specialty laboratory features with virtual reality capability.
The Technology Learning Complex (TLC) allows students to practice challenging patient care scenarios in a controlled learning environment. Human patient simulators offer students the opportunity to perform nursing assessments and employ critical thinking skills on patients with a variety of conditions such as respiratory failure, cardiac events and postpartum hemorrhage. Other simulation scenarios, such as hospice care, employ trained actors to create patient interaction with students.
The TLC has spearheaded interprofessional education at the university, having conducted simulations for over eight thousand students to date from multiple health science programs across campus. Students at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels from nursing, medicine, pharmacy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, nutrition, respiratory therapy, social work, and speech and language pathology have all benefited from the Excellence in Interprofessional Clinical Simulation Education, or ECLIPSE, an award-winning, evidence-based program. This valuable program continues through the Office of Interprofessional Practice and Education.
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Facilities
Room 256
This room can simulate an adult or neonatal ICU, or community setting. It currently represents a high-acuity environment with state-of-the-art headwalls for air, suction and oxygen sources, cabinetry, lighting, sink, commode and privacy curtains. An observation room allows the instructor to observe student responses, operate the simulator and record the session.
Room 284
This room can simulate an intensive care environment for neonates and children, as well as labor and delivery and gynecological care.
Room 294
The layout of this room simulates a nurse’s station and patient rooms where students learn fundamental psychomotor and physical assessment skills with an emphasis on lower-risk patients. This lab is equipped with a state-of-the-art computerized clinical information system.
Room 082
This room offers a wide range of contemporary examination and diagnostic equipment for students learning to perform advanced physical examinations and diagnostic tests. The layout of this room is designed for students to practice in an environment that resembles a professional medical clinic that most students will experience in practice. This lab is equipped with a state-of-the-art computerized clinical information system, audio/visual recording equipment and observation glass to facilitate clinical patient simulations.
The College of Nursing incorporates telehealth across nursing curricula with innovative techniques, tools, strategies and learning environments to prepare students for the delivery of health care. Our commitment to telehealth has been based on the evidence that virtual delivery of care is correlated with improved access to care, positive health outcomes, cost savings and patient satisfaction. Using telehealth as a component of primary care, chronic care management and support for behavioral health has the potential to significantly decrease exposures and health disparities for individuals who have limited ability to access care.
Room 280
A modern hospital setting with a full-body computerized patient simulator and peripheral devices for various medical procedures.
Room 272
An adult intensive care setting that is equipped with a patient simulator. Faculty are able to develop clinical scenarios that incorporate a wide range of advanced assessment skills (including analysis of arrhythmias, hemodynamic waveform monitoring, abnormal heart and lung sounds and vital sign changes) that would require rapid responses by the student.
