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TTUHSC Louise and Clay Wood Simulation Center Opens
ZACHARY TIJERINA
ZACHARY TIJERINA
ZACHARY TIJERINA
Officials from the TTUHSC at the Permian Basin and Medical Center Hospital in Odessa along with representatives from the Wood Family Foundation hosted a grand opening ceremony in November for the TTUHSC Louise and Clay Wood Simulation Center. A generous donation from the Wood Family Foundation helped equip the facility with state-of-the-art technology. The Woods are Texas Tech University alumni who established Western National Bank in the Permian Basin. The new clinical simulation center is an interdisciplinary, multimodality facility that provides multiple realistic health care environments designed to assist learners in acquiring the competencies necessary to provide safe, culturally sensitive, quality patient care and transferring these competencies to actual care settings. The hospital renovated the 13,252-square-foot unit for $3.3 million to meet TTUHSC’s specifications for the new simulation center.
Simulation instruction areas include: • Authentic health care environments that include high-tech equipment, mannequins, simulators and supplies needed to facilitate learning experiences like an operating suite and scrub room • Authentic simulated hospital patient and clinic examination rooms to represent the patient care environment of a surgical unit or long-term care facility • Virtual reality and 3-D visualization that supports learning and competency evaluations • Computerized digital audio-visual systems in all rooms More than 200 medical, nursing and physician assistant students from TTUHSC at the Permian Basin will use the innovative simulation facility. Other community health care professionals will also utilize the center for training purposes.
Winter 2014 |
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