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UNG: University of North Georgia
UNG adds simulation lab to support expansion
of four-year degree to Gainesville
Teresa Conner-Kerr: Dean, College of Health Sciences and Professions
We're really excited about our expansion to the
Gainesville Campus with our nursing cohort. But you
know what? It's really about the people of Hall County.
When you look at this great expansion that the county is in
the middle of and when we see that the number one employer
in the county is healthcare -- the major employer being
Northeast Georgia Medical Center. We have a really
critical role to help supply those nurses that are going to bring
good healthcare and wellness to the community.
Katie Parrish: Associate professor of nursing, MSN, RN, CNE
The Center for Clinical Simulation was developed here on the
Gainesville Campus of the University of North Georgia to provide
our students with an area for clinical practice in a simulated environment.
We've created five patient care areas -- a pediatric and
an adult in-patient room setup. An ICU or critical care
patient set-up. A labor and delivery and newborn nursery.
And an outpatient clinic setting. We also have a simulated
apartment setup where students can practice home health visits
as well as safety and mobility assessments.
So the virtual hospital's very important to us so that we can
bring that interdisciplinary component of training that's
more realistic in the way we deliver team-based care.
We can't take chances with patients. We don't want to practice on
a patient, so what we're trying to do is really take the students
through these safe failures, intensive practice
so they get it right the first time with a patient.
Our high-fidelity patient mannequins have realistic physiology.
They can blink, breathe. We can listen to heart and lung sounds as well as bowel
sounds, administer medications. We can get realistic
vital signs and they can even talk.
Mannequin: Who are you? What happened? Are you a doctor?
This is our high-fidelity birthing simulator which allows students to experience caring
for a mother and baby prior to, during and after delivery.
The newborn simulator offers realistic options for the students, such as movement, cyanosis.
Realistic pulse points such as the brachial, umbilical and fontanel pulses.
We can intubate or suction the baby. We can also administer medications
and attach to cardiac monitoring.
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