To learn it, live it - Institute of Simulation and Interprofessional Learning
Be patient ready. Team ready. Career ready.
At St. 做厙輦⑹, we believe in the value of experiential learning. We're committed to student success by providing personalized guidance in real-world learning opportunities with our integrated state-of-the-art simulation training (I-SAIL) and Interprofessional Education (IPE) programs. These learning-based programs are an essential part of the curriculum for all nursing and healthcare students.
Our innovative team teaching programs prepare you to work seamlessly with other healthcare professionals. These are critical skills for success in today's collaborative healthcare environment, and when you graduate from St. Kates, youll be ready from day one.
High-Quality Simulation Training
Our broad spaces feature cutting-edge equipment and future-forward technology to immerse students in todays clinical and fieldwork settings. Each space includes control rooms where faculty can monitor simulations and a debriefing room for real-time evaluations and feedback. Our I-SAIL leadership team comprises 11 dedicated faculty and staff and three certified healthcare simulation educators (CHSE). The I-SAIL team uses high-fidelity mannequins, live patient actors, innovative strategies, and current technologies to create realistic and engaging healthcare scenarios and learning activities. Students hone their technical skills while learning to work effectively alongside other healthcare professionals in a structured, safe environment.
St. 做厙輦⑹ invests with the I-SAIL team to produce collaborative courses and real-life learning experiences. With 255 different activities annually, our intentionally planned program provides students with a robust IPE experience and technical discipline training at all levels of the students educational journey with:
- A broad scope of situations from patient conversations to critical code management
- Highly technical on-site equipment and instruments
- Extended Reality (XR/VR) platforms to support learning
- Simulated patient/client actor program
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Simulation as Education
Imagine, in a simulated acute care hospital room, nursing students collaborate with respiratory care students to revive a coding patient. A social work student goes into the home of a person with mental health and addiction issues. Our physician assistant, physical therapy, and nutrition science students meet and confer with actual clients in clinical settings.
Our nursing and healthcare students work through a variety of intentional simulations and interprofessional activities each year, building skills such as:
- Person-centered care and communication
- Interpretation of patient status
- Clinical judgment and decision-making
- Implementation of interventions
- Care of the patient across the lifespan
- Optimizing care as a team
What is Interprofessional Education (IPE)?
Working in teams is not intuitive. It takes engagement with other specialists to practice and improve essential communication skills. IPE happens when two or more professions work together to improve patient care. It is central to our healthcare education, strategically integrated into classroom work, simulation activities, collaborative research and hands-on opportunities. These are the building blocks of teamwork so critical in healthcare today.
Together, simulation and IPE can build real confidence.
At St. Kates, were proud to build on our reputation of providing top quality, well-prepared healthcare professionals and future leaders. The creation of the Institute of Simulation and Interprofessional Learning (I-SAIL), and investment in the highest quality sim and IPE training, furthers that goal by offering our students:
- A broad scope of situations from patient assessments to critical code management
- Innovative technologies and authentic equipment, including high-fidelity mannequins and virtual/extended reality platforms
- A Simulated Patient/Client Actor program
- A rigorous faculty development and continuing education program
Nursing students simulate maternal and newborn care scenarios using high fidelity, responsive mannequins.
Nursing student learns how to do a pelvic exam using innovative training technology.
Physical therapy student uses virtual reality technology that simulates clinical balance assessment.
Sonography, respiratory care, physician assistant and nursing students work together during a simulated pediatric scenario.
Control room technology where faculty and staff facilitate simulation and IPE scenarios.
different situational experiences across 255 simulation activities annually
square feet of new, state-of-the-art simulation space
scenarios requiring interprofessional learning
Lab Spaces
Advanced Clinical Assessment Labs
- Basic/Physical Assessment
- Procedural Skills
High-Fidelity Simulation Labs
- 5 Acute Care Hospital Environments
- Obstetric Delivery Suite
- Home/Transitional Care/Long-Term Care Environment
- 5 Control Rooms
- Primary Care Lab
- Two Skills Labs
- Food/Nutrition Lab
- Medication Room
- Radiography/Medical Imaging Suite
Technology
Gaumard Mannequins
- Adult Hal
- Noelle
- 5-year-old Hal
- 1-year-old Hal
- Newborn Hal
- Super Tory
Laerdal Mannequins
- 2 Nursing Anne simulators
- Sim Mom
- Large fleet of low fidelity and static practice mannequins
Wearable Simulators
- Avtrach
- Mama Natalie
- Obese suite
Additional Tools
- Ventriloscope
- Simbionix Pelvic Monitor
- Lumbar Puncture Trainer
- Central Line Insertion Trainer
- Videoscope
- Airway heads
- Fully stocked code cart
- Electronic health medical record software
- Virtual reality simulation activities
St. 做厙輦⑹ is proud to partner with Minneapolis-based GHR Foundation to build upon our legacy of preparing the next generation of professionals to lead and influence. As the recipient of two generous grants from the Foundation, St. Kates is able to provide students with a high-quality education that ensures their skills are relevant and applicable in the ever-changing healthcare industry. Learn more here.