The University of Miami School of Nursing Hospital
University of Miami Opens New Simulation Center
Equipped with smart classrooms, multiple clinical practice labs, seminar and conference rooms, high-tech computer labs, and a state-of-the-art simulation academy, the five-story, 41,000 SF facility creates a new academic simulation center that seamlessly integrates into the overall campus. The facility includes simulated hospital spaces such as operating rooms, emergent care, NICU’s, ICU’s, and patient rooms used as teaching environments that mimic actual hospital settings to train the nursing students, reflecting the continuum of care used in real-world settings. The LEED-certified project supports the work of nurse scientists, clinical educators, and the University of Miami’s undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the school’s nursing and health science programs.
The new facility signals a transformation in the education of healthcare professionals. It will serve as a hub for students, healthcare professionals, first responders and corporate partners to design, test and master skills and technologies to transform healthcare education, research and practice.
The project comprises examination rooms for healthcare students working with standardized patients as well as an emergency department complete with ambulance bays. In addition to ED personnel training, this area will be used for mass casualties and natural disaster simulation exercises. Other areas include a 300-seat auditorium, classrooms, and videoconferencing capability, and a specialized hospital areas which include OB delivery unit, newborn nursery, pediatric unit, neonatal intensive care unit and fully-functioning operating rooms.