The Innovative Practice Center (IPC) is integral to the education obtained by students attending the Decker School of Nursing. The laboratory space and equipment that comprise the Center significantly expanded in 2005 with a generous gift from the Dr. G. Clifford and Florence B. Decker Foundation.
Currently the IPC houses a family of human patient simulators including five Vital Sims, three Sim Men and one Sim Baby. These high fidelity computerized mannequins are technologically advanced teaching tools capable of being programmed to represent typical clinical patient conditions and clinical situations.
Using Sim mannequins, students learn to assess changes in patient blood pressure, carotid, brachial, radial, femoral and pedal pulses, and respiratory and cardiac sounds that reflect a patient's status related to the current scenario. Dynamic and interactive, mannequins verbally respond to student questions and clinically respond to student interventions. The addition of simulators and patient scenarios as teaching tools significantly enhances Decker School programs of study.
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Decker School students practice patient skills scenarios using simulation mannequins |
Dean Joyce Ferrario interacts with Simbaby, one of several human patient simulators located in the Decker School's Innovative Practice Center. Professor Sue Terwilliger observes. |
