31,400 SQUARE FEET
22 HIGH-FIDELITY MANIKINS
OPENED IN SEPTEMBER 2019
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