Academics · February 3, 2026
Health Sciences Opens a Full-Floor Simulation Hospital
Eight patient rooms, a control suite, and debriefing spaces let nursing and allied-health students practice complex scenarios before clinical placements.
The College of Health Sciences has opened a simulation hospital occupying a full floor of the Health Sciences Center: eight realistic patient rooms, a nurses’ station, a control suite behind one-way glass, and dedicated debriefing rooms. High-fidelity manikins can be programmed to deteriorate, respond to medication, and present the complications students will eventually see in a real hospital.
Simulation is now woven through every clinical course rather than treated as an add-on. A typical scenario runs fifteen minutes, followed by a forty-five-minute structured debrief — the part the faculty consider most important — where students review a video of their own performance.
“You want a student’s first time managing a crashing patient to be in a room where no one can actually be harmed, with a facilitator who can pause time and ask what they were thinking.”
— director of clinical simulation
The facility is shared with the dietetics, rehabilitation services, and health information management programs, and is available to regional hospital partners for continuing-education days.
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