B36 Sim Lab and Health Care Active Learning Spaces

This project aligns graduate education spaces with the Institute’s goals, and fosters current pedagogies. The simulated hospital environment provides students the opportunity to take what they’ve learned in the classroom and apply it in realistic situations prior to clinical rotations. Active learning classrooms provide flexibility of use, using individual monitors to encourage both hands-on group work and independent studies. Wet labs allow students to apply classroom knowledge beyond traditional means, enhancing collaboration, communication, and interdisciplinary education. In expanding and combining the existing acute care labs, the users are provided with a simulated hospital environment, including patient beds, patient lifts, and mock headwalls. The simulation suite provides hands-on practice in a realistic inpatient environment by using more than two dozen manikins, including birthing, pediatric, and adult. With individual control rooms, the space allows observation without interference by use of one-way mirrors and wall-mounted cameras.