The University of Miami (UM) School of Nursing and Health Studies (SONHS) has implemented simulation technologies and techniques to improve nursing education. Their simulation hospital is a powerful tool for preparing future health care professionals and those resources are now being deployed to optimize skills for new nurses entering the workforce through an educational and training partnership with the University of Miami Hospital (UMH).
With a cohort of high-tech patient simulators that can breathe, blink, and mimic vital signs, students are able to address chronic and acute health conditions in real time while in a simulated environment. This high-level simulation education improves basic and advanced nursing skills.
UMH nurse educator Jessica Joseph suggested the program, recalling to News.Miami.edu, “As a graduate of SONHS, I know the quality of the school’s simulation education equipment, facilities, and personnel. So I suggested that we explore opportunities for our new nurses to benefit from these outstanding training resources.”
After Joseph’s UMH colleagues were receptive to the idea, they reached out to SONHS to develop a program together. The program launched last May as a series of three training modules attended by 22 UMH nurse residents, recent graduates of SONHS, and other RN granting institutions.
SONHS’s Simulation Hospital holds the potential to expand this novel training program using the latest simulation technology to provide SONHS students, public health professionals, and practicing nurses with high quality education in a variety of simulated clinical environments. To learn more about UM and UMH’s partnership to train entry-level nurses through simulation education, visit here.
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