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Today marks the 177th Commencement Ceremonies at Emory University! After the activities at the Quandrangle, the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing will host a Degree Candidate Recognition Ceremony at 11 a.m. at the Emory Student Center. All events will be streamed live.
The simulation program at the Emory Nursing Learning Center in Decatur, Ga. is a $20.6M expansion that includes state-of-the-art simulation and skills labs that provide experiential and immersive learning for students, faculty, and Emory Healthcare nurses.
Since 1905, the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing (NHWSN) has evolved from a small training program in a fifty-bed hospital to an internationally renowned school that now enrolls more than 1,000 baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral students each year.
NHWSN has expanded its footprint and renovated 70,000-square-feet in Decatur, Ga. to become the Emory Nursing Learning Center. The $20.6M expansion includes a state-of-the-art simulation and skills labs, providing experiential and immersive learning for students, and the Emory Nursing Experience, a program for continuing professional education in partnership with Emory Healthcare Nursing.
Welcome to the Simulation Program at the Emory Nursing Learning Center. Our mission is to lead a new reality/future for nursing education, research, practice, and lifelong learning, ultimately to advance health care delivery for individuals, families, and communities. Our vision is establishing an academic practice for simulation-based learning for nursing, interprofessional, and transdisciplinary education and collaborative practice.
The values that get us to mastering the art of creating and providing an extraordinary simulation experience are integrity, accountability, quality, communication, service orientation, and inclusivity.
The Simulation Program at the Emory Nursing Learning Center is positioned to be a leader in the use of simulation and is a state-of-the-art facility with over 70,000 square feet of teaching and learning space and ample rooms for skills attainment, structured practice, briefing, and skills assessment sessions. You can find a description of each room here.
Our Program maintains and utilizes a large collection of low-, medium-, and high-fidelity mechanical simulators that support skills attainment sessions and structured practice sessions for all core skill sets from invasive clinical skills to communication skills to team building skills. A list of equipment can be found here.
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Through the use of simulation, classroom lecture was matched with simulated patient scenarios. Concurrent with simulation, the instructors teaching students in the practice setting review the simulation materials for each week. In this way, clinical practice assignments are matched with simulation scenarios and lecture content.
The COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) pandemic has required a transition from in-person clinical practice to virtual. This study compares the standardized assessment test scores of pre-licensure nursing students who completed their pediatric clinical practicum in person for both the clinical and simulation practice settings versus virtually.
Laika is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Operations Specialist and has over 18 years of experience in patient simulation. Her journey began in 2006 at the University of Miami, where she received comprehensive training in supporting simulation activities that she used to partner with nurse educators at Baptist Health South Florida, contributing significantly to the simulation training for new graduate nurse residents. In 2007, she joined WellStar Health System in Atlanta, GA, initially as the Coordinator for Patient Simulation and ultimately rising to the position of Assistant Vice President of Organizational Learning Operations. In this role, she led education teams and spearheaded the establishment of the first non-academic simulation center in Georgia.
Laika started at Emory in 2018 where she has worked to incorporate simulation in multiple programs such as their Wound, Ostomy, and Continence (WOC) certification program and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Clinical Skills Training courses. In 2020, she was asked to lead simulation on interim basis and as of January 2023 is now back to fully leading simulation as the Executive Director of the Simulation Program at the Emory Nursing Learning Center.
Kim Fugate is the Senior Simulation Operations Specialist for the Emory University Nursing Learning Center. In this role, Kim partners with Simulation Technicians, Simulation Nurse Educators, and faculty to develop, implement, operate, and participate in simulation activities to guarantee a high quality, safe, and consistent simulation experience in the ENLC. Kim assists in the management of the infrastructure to ensure student privacy, operational efficiency, limited downtime, and that learning objectives are met. She troubleshoots and resolves any technical and logistical issues; operates simulation capture system to ensure activities are videotaped. Provides first level repairs and preventative maintenance to simulation resources; ensures equipment and supplies are used and maintained properly. Plans, develops, and manufactures materials and techniques for executing moulage and task trainers in collaboration with key players to enhance the overall realism of the simulation activity.
Kim has been working in simulation for over 18 years at Emory University. Originally working with the Dept of Surgery E*STAR lab before moving to the School of Medicine Simulation lab where she served as Associate Director of ExCEL for the last 14 years. She is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator (CHSE) and a Certified Healthcare Simulation Operations Specialist (CHSOS) and is a member of the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. She is also an AHA certified instructor in both BLS and ACLS.
Dr. Lowe has 15 years of healthcare experience in clinical practice setting in direct patient care and nursing education. Previous roles include bedside Registered Nurse, Relief Charge Nurse, Unit educator, Shift Nurse Manger in the inpatient setting. Most recently, she was the Clinical Nurse Specialist for the Emory University Hospital Neuroscience inpatient unit. She was one of the first DEU Clinical Instructor for NHWSN DEU clinical rotation. In 2017 Dr. Lowe formally accepted a role as a part time Clinical Instructor at the School of Nursing. Since that time, she has served in the capacity as Course Coordinator and course lecturer in the pre-licensure program.
In her current role, Dr. Lowe supervises, coaches, develops, and mentors Clinical Instructors instructing students in the clinical setting or simulation lab. She collaborates with our clinical partners, faculty and students to ensure the highest quality simulation-based learning activities are integrated and implemented across the prelicensure and post-licensure programs; and designs, delivers, and evaluates innovative, evidence-based simulation-based learning for nursing and interprofessional experiences.
Sandra Rosedale comes to the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University with over 40 years of nursing experience. She has held a variety of roles in home care, inpatient, long-term care, assisted living and academia. Sandra is a Geriatric Clinical Nurse specialist and has always had a passion for working with the elderly. She received her BSN and MSN degrees from the University of California, San Francisco. During her academic career she has taught Fundamentals, Health Assessment, Patho/Pharmacology, Med Surg 1 and 2, Community Health, Aging Adult, and Leadership. Most of the courses had a lab component that also involved simulation. Sandra has over 15 years of simulation experience and finds it rewarding and a great safe place for the students to practice their nursing skills.
Kevin Paproski is Senior Simulation Technician for the Simulation Program at the Emory Nursing Learning Center. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Health Services at Augusta University. His coursework gave him an overview of the U.S. healthcare system and provided the knowledge and skill development in healthcare delivery, leadership, cultural competency, bioethics, research and innovation. While at Augusta University, he completed a three-year internship at the Interdisciplinary Simulation Center. During his time at the center, he refined his interprofessional skills and technical knowledge of healthcare simulation as well as inventory management. The belief that simulation not only improves the skills and knowledge of students, but the quality of care that patients will receive is what drives Kevin to provide excellent service.
Adam completed his undergraduate education at Georgia State University (GSU) where he acquired a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, then graduated from the same university with a Master of Science in Biological Sciences (Non-Thesis Track) shortly after. Following his time at GSU, Adam completed a Master of Science in Biomedical Science from PCOM-GA, choosing to concentrate in Medical Simulation, and earned a Certificate in Advanced Graduate Studies in Organizational Developmental Leadership (ODL) while in the program.
Charita is a native of South Carolina and is a member of Chi Eta Phi Nursing Sorority Inc. She is excited to be a team member at Emory University Nursing Learning Center as a Simulation Technician and knows her skills and experience in healthcare will give her the ability to help our nursing students.
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