PART 2
CHALLENGING CONVENTIONS
Going to the Doctor Should be Safer Than Jumping Out of a Plane
More people die from preventable medical errors every year than skydiving - as many as 400,000 people by some estimates . Healthcare providers have battled this problem for over 20 years , but the number of cases is growing , not shrinking . What if nurses , physicians , and emergency personnel had a state-of-the-art facility to learn and practice new skills before they practice on real patients ?
To find the answer , Jacksonville University opened up its on-campus student simulation center to community health providers nearly 10 years ago . The demand was overwhelming . Then an eye-opening global outbreak of ebola in 2014 really showed what a simulation center designed to serve working professionals could do for patient safety . So Jacksonville University looked beyond its campus and in 2019 , with the help of its partners , opened the Healthcare Simulation Center for regional providers .
With 22 lifelike , high-fidelity medical manikins and 31,400 square feet of collaborative learning space , the facility now trains
hundreds of newly hired nurses for the area ’ s largest healthcare providers and offers interprofessional continuing education courses designed to improve teamwork . The center opened just a few short months before the coronavirus pandemic hit the U . S ., allowing JU to play a vital role in infection control training in the region .
31,400 SQUARE FEET
22 HIGH-FIDELITY MANIKINS
OPENED IN SEPTEMBER 2019