Nursing and university leaders dedicated will dedicate the University of Iowa Nursing Clinical Education Center during a special event from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 25. The center was created to meet the learning needs of both professional nursing staff and students.
Located on the fourth level of the General Hospital in University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, the center provides a learning environment of the highest quality to enrich the educational experience and to improve patient care now and in the future. The Nursing Clinical Education Center resulted from a joint effort between the Department of Nursing Services and Patient Care at UI Hospitals and Clinics and the UI College of Nursing.
The $6 million, 20,000 square-foot center is a state-of-the art educational facility available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In the center, staff and students will learn how to provide safe, effective, and compassionate care before providing direct care to patients. Staff will use the facility for simulation training, educational enrichment, orientation training and competency review.
Instruction is provided by nurse educators, faculty, and practicing clinicians. Cutting-edge educational technology is located in an 11-room clinical simulation lab where learners experience sophisticated and complex nursing care in specialty and clinical situations.
The simulation lab offers technological and information systems to support high-fidelity patient simulation in the following areas:
- Perioperative
- Pediatric intensive care unit (ICU)
- Neonatal ICU
- General pediatrics
- Adult medical surgical care
- Adult critical care
- Pediatric and adult ambulatory care.
Other features of the center include:
- An 86-seat classroom (which can be split into two classrooms), 36- and 34-seat classrooms, 24- and 30-seat conference rooms, and a 10-seat computer lab for additional didactic and meeting needs
- A resource library and several gathering spaces that allow for private study or interactive learning on a more informal basis
- Space for housing the hospitals' Department of Nursing Services and Patient Care Education Center and the UI College of Nursing Learning Resource Center offices
Financial support for the center was part of the "Good. Better. Best. Iowa" fundraising campaign. Opportunities through the UI Foundation are available for continued support.
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For more information:
Department of Nursing Services
UI College of Nursing
Nursing Clinical Education Center
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