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<h2>Advanced Education Simulated Learning Center: $2 million</h2>
<p>Increasingly, advanced practice nurses are at the forefront of primary and preventive health care. The level and complexity of diagnoses and procedures these nurses must perform demand the most technologically-sophisticated laboratories in which to learn and practice. To ensure our 200-plus graduate students gain the clinical skills they need to prepare for positions in a wide range of regional health care settings, we are seeking funding to create a new Advanced Education Simulated Learning Center dedicated to graduate education.<br /><br /></p>
<p>Support is needed to fully equip the Center with the following:</p>
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<li>Four patient examination rooms fully-equipped with electronic assessment tools such as oto-ophthalmoscopes</li>
<li>Central operations room with video recording equipment</li>
<li>Intensive care room</li>
<li>Surgical room with anesthesia equipment</li>
<li>Four high-fidelity mannequins that simulate breathing, heart sounds and other human functions</li>
<li>High-fidelity mannequin heads which model abnormal and normal conditions of the eyes, ears and throat</li>
<li>Mannequins on which to perform colonoscopies and insert intravenous lines</li>
<li>One super mannequin for anesthetic intubation</li>
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<p>By simulating the patient experience in a technologically advanced lab, graduate students will gain the knowledge and confidence they need to provide superior care to patients throughout the region.</p>
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