马塞诸斯州大学波士顿

CCER Has Moved from Science Center to Quinn 政府 Building

的 College of 护理 and 健康科学’s Center for Clinical Education and 研究 (CCER) has long given 马塞诸斯州大学波士顿 护理 students an advantage as they embark on clinicals and paid 护理 jobs. With its move to the first floor of the Quinn 政府 Building this semester, the CCER has gone from about 3,000 square feet to just over 10,000, with even more amenities that prepare our students for the workforce.

“的 new state-of-the-art space allows us to safely educate students to care for patients,” College of 护理 and 健康科学 Dean Linda Thompson said. “It is truly a game-changer for us.”

“We’ve designed the environment to resemble a hospital environment as accurately as possible,” said 马塞诸斯州大学波士顿 alumna and CCER Director Rosemary Samia. “It really mirrors what they see in the clinical setting, and it familiarizes them with some of the equipment.”

Junior 护理 student Faith Koroma-Coker gives us a tour of some of the CCER spaces in this video.

Sophomore 护理 major Josephine Burlingame is a student nurse at St. 伊丽莎白医疗中心. She says she felt comfortable during her orientation earlier this month because the equipment was what she’d been working with at 马塞诸斯州大学波士顿.

“我认出了很多东西. Even if it’s just stuff on the wall, I’m like, ‘Oh, I’ve seen that before.“就像, “我知道那是什么,’ instead of going and being like, “这些我都不知道,’”伯林盖姆说.

When the CCER was in the Science Center, the largest room consisted of mannequins in exam beds on two walls surrounding a classroom of desks. Now there are two skills labs, 北, 如上图所示, 和南, meaning more simulations can be run at once and there are more opportunities for open labs, where students can practice a skill by themselves or with a graduate teaching assistant for 10 minutes or the full two hours. Samia says during the second week of class, more than 50 students took advantage of the open lab time. And that’s not the only benefit of the larger space.

“When we run simulations, one of the important parts is the debriefing at the end of each scenario. 的 students are debriefed in a private, confidential setting with a simulation educator, and that space didn’t exist in the old lab,萨米亚说. “So now we have three debriefing rooms and our reach is much greater than we ever could dream of in the last place.”

As a junior, 护理 student Stevie Conley has experience working in both the old and new CCER.

“的 old space was very crammed. For labs, there were 20 of us crammed into one room with all the desks,康利说. “Now you can really spread out. … You can really home in on your skills, and learn a lot more. And then there’s a separate classroom for practice questions, 回顾, 辅导, 学习一项新技能, 诸如此类的东西.”

Burlingame is among those who have already taken advantage of the separate 辅导 space.

“I have a lot of exams coming up in the next week, 在大的群体中, it’s sometimes hard to really focus in on your skills. I made two appointments this week. Just to be one-on-one with the tutor is really helpful,” Burlingame said.

Also new – six outpatient exam rooms and the skills labs are equipped to handle standardized patients, 扮演病人的演员. Samia is also bringing in people from the Dorchester area to interact with students during their health assessment labs. Students will benefit from interviewing and performing physical assessments on a variety of patients.

“I’m hoping to introduce community members and our students and put them together in a learning environment – help each other understand a different perspective of the health care system,萨米亚说.

“I really enjoy the space because you get more of a hospital feel, I think, of a bigger ward. It’s nice that you get windows, 你有阳光, you get to have more space for interaction, and more experiences for learning. 整体, I think it’s going to be a great experience for current and prospective 护理 students,康利说.

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