Health Professions Simulation Center
Apartment for Caregiver Education and Simulation Center
http://www.palmhealthcare.org/CenterforPatientSafety - 561-842-2226
Improving patient care: In our Health Professions Simulation Center, we provide an interactive, realistic setting where healthcare professionals learn to treat patients in the safest, most effective ways. By practicing on lifelike mannequins with realistic human responses, we’re reducing preventable medical errors and enhancing expertise. Participants in this “living classroom” strengthen skills, reduce response time and improve quality of care.
Community involvement is at the cornerstone of the Health Professions Simulation Facility at Palm Healthcare Pavilion. This medical simulation facility helps bring healthcare education and community-based healthcare practice. It provides an opportunity to enhance patient safety and treatment by simulating medical scenarios and providing health professionals the opportunity to practice, prepare and analyze all aspects of patient care and treatment.
Offering Basic Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support and other advanced-level courses for both health care and non-health care providers, medical simulation helps to bridge the distance between healthcare education and community-based health care practice.
Vision
The vision of the Regional Medical Campus Training Facility is to enhance student learning and retention, and at the same time, improve patient safety and treatment by simulating the medical and disaster scenarios and providing the opportunity to practice, prepare and analyze every aspect of the chain of care and treatment. Our vision will bridge medical simulation from health care education to community-based health care practice.
Goals
The goals of the Health Professions Simulation Center are as follows:
- Provide more realistic representations of patients in the health care system
- Provide enhanced initial and advanced training for medical students and health care providers particularly with regard to systems-integrated practice from the first year of entry into medical school through graduate and post graduate training
- Establish a mechanism for analysis, test and evaluation of patient safety and treatment issues within the emergency care system. Data recording and video recordings are used in debriefing sessions to review the steps taken in patient care scenarios and lessons learned
- Increase preparedness on the part of clinical teams leading to improving patient safety and treatment
