FranU Simulated Environment Teaching Hospital (SETH)

Mission

The mission of the Simulated Environment Teaching Hospital (SETH) is to enhance interprofessional learning experiences in an innovative simulated environment. Simulation fosters interprofessional collaboration, improving critical thinking and applied skills in a safe and supportive setting. Learners use evidence-based practices and innovative technologies in their development as Franciscan Servant Leaders.

Vision

SETH aspires to be the premier simulation teaching hospital in the state by providing safe and effective interprofessional learning experiences for students that are evidence-based, student-centered, and formative as they prepare to meet the health care needs of the community and globally.

SETH, or the Simulated Environment Teaching Hospital, is an estimated 19,000-square-foot state-of-the-art simulated learning environment offering resources to advance a comprehensive simulation healthcare education program.

FranU SETH labs have the capacity for advanced technology, computer-based simulation, task training simulation, virtual reality simulation and manikin-based simulation. The focus of SETH is to promote interprofessional education and patient safety through simulation education.

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The Value of Clinical Simulations

Designing realistic clinical simulations allows educators to immerse students in a simulated clinical experience so skill sets, diagnostic reasoning, and other required competencies can be evaluated in a safe learning environment.

Simulations will be utilized as a vehicle to foster the acquisition of skills that will enhance students' critical and applied thinking and reduce clinical errors.

Participation in interprofessional scenarios allows clinical students to develop an appreciation for and respect for the roles and responsibilities of each field. As students perform their specific roles, they practice their professional behaviors and learn to collaborate with other professionals.

FranU SETH Lab Program

SETH provides simulated hospital and healthcare learning environments for the following disciplines:

Clinical Students:

Health Professions:

Doctor of Physical Therapy

Physical Therapy Assistant

Physician Assistant

Nutritional Sciences

Radiologic Technology

Respiratory Therapy

Medical Laboratory Science

School of Nursing:

Nursing (BSN)

Family Nurse Practitioner

Doctor of Nursing Practice - Nurse Anesthesia

Facilities

SETH includes six debriefing rooms and 20 simulation suites that replicate various clinical environments. Each simulated environment is affiliated with a control room for content experts to observe students participating in the immersive simulation experience.

Debriefing Rooms

Debriefing rooms are small conference rooms designed to prepare learners for the simulation experience. Learners are able to observe the simulation in real time via simulation audio/visual equipment. Post-simulation discussions are facilitated in these debriefing rooms.

Simulation Suites

There are 25 simulation suites that are multifunctional to allow interprofessional educational learning. Each simulation suite has a control room with one-way mirrored glass.

In-Patient Area:

• Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
  The ICU is a simulation environment designed to resemble a real ICU. It includes audio/visual cameras, assessment equipment, appropriate headwalls for the type of care needed for the simulation, including a ventilator and other ICU-specific equipment. This room is equipped with a high-fidelity simulator, Adult Hal, and a workstation on wheels for computerized electronic health record (EHR).
• Medical Surgical Unit
  The Medical-Surgical Unit is a simulation environment designed to resemble a realistic medical-surgical environment. It includes a 360-degree camera, audio/visual cameras, assessment equipment, and appropriate headwalls for the type of care needed for the simulation. This room is equipped with high-fidelity simulators, such as 3G SimMan and Nurse Anne, and a workstation on wheels for computerized electronic health record (EHR).
• Birthing Suite
  This suite is designed for labor and delivery encounters. The room is equipped with high-fidelity simulators Victoria and Super Tory, appropriate headwalls for the type of care needed for the simulation, birthing suite furnishings, audio/visual cameras, and a workstation on wheels for computerized electronic health record (EHR).
• Pediatric Unit
  This simulation suite houses Sim Jr. and Pedi Hal, two pediatric high-fidelity simulators. It is equipped with audio/visual cameras, a headwall, and a workstation on wheels for computerized electronic health record (EHR).
• Home Health Unit
  This simulation room is designed for multifunctional purposes. It can be utilized as a mental health suite or converted to a community health environment. The suite is equipped with pan-tilt-zoom cameras.
• Mental Health Unit
  This simulation room is designed to recreate a mental health environment. It can be utilized as a mental health suite. The suite is equipped with audio/visual cameras and a workstation on wheels for computerized electronic health record (EHR).
• Emergency Room
  This room is set up to simulate an Emergency Room. It is designed with five curtained hospital cubicles that can be reconfigured for various purposes, including teaching and skills practice with task trainers. Each cubicle contains a stretcher and a headwall unit with suction and simulated oxygen. This room can also serve as a Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU).
• NICU Room
  The NICU simulates a neonatal intensive care unit and houses an incubator with a preemie simulator (Premie Hal), a bili light, a crib, and a bassinette.
• Operating Room
  The two OR suites are dedicated operating room spaces that include an adjoining scrub room and are equipped with anesthesia simulators. These simulators utilize real medical gases delivered through surgical booms, including oxygen, air, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide. The room features an anesthesia cart, an operating table, a medication dispensing unit, and patient monitors.
• Nurses Station
  •The nurses' station is designed to be a hub where medical staff can collaborate. There is a medication room, a clean supply room, a pneumatic tube system, nourishment room, soil utility room(biohazard).
  • Medication room
    The Medication Room is designed to mimic a hospital environment with equipment such as a Pyxis medication dispensing unit, a medication cart, and a blood glucose monitoring unit.
    
  • Clean Supply Room
    The Clean Supply Room houses disposable supplies for medical procedures.
  • Pneumatic Tube System
    The pneumatic tube system simulates the transfer of supplies and specimens to the laboratory.
  • Nourishment Room
    The Nourishment Room houses tube feeding supplies and other special dietary supplements.
  • Soil Utility Room
    The Soil Utility Room is where biohazardous waste is discarded.
  • Code Cart
    The code cart is used in medical emergencies for life saving measures. It houses emergency medications and respiratory equipment.
  • Call Light System
    The Call Light system allows calls from patient rooms.
  • Simulated Assignment Board
    The simulated bed board displays patient location and nurses assignments.
  • Desktops for Electronic Health Record (EHR)
    Desktop computers are set up for students to use the Electronic Health Record and document patient care from the nurses station rather than at the bedside.

Out-Patient Area:

• Medical Laboratory Science Laboratory
  The Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) Laboratory is equipped with advanced technology and instruments designed to analyze and assess biological samples. This room enables students and professionals to conduct a wide range of diagnostic tests that aid in the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases.
• Phlebotomy
  The Phlebotomy Room is specifically designed and equipped to facilitate the safe and efficient collection of blood samples from venipuncture task trainers. It features specialized tools such as sterile needles, vacutainer tubes, tourniquets, and collection bags, along with supportive devices like a phlebotomist blood drawing chair that ensure patient comfort during the procedure.
• Standardized Patient Prep Area
  The Standardized Patient Prep Area serves as a staging space where standardized patients are prepared for clinical scenarios. It includes two dressing rooms, allowing patients to change clothes and get ready for their roles before entering the simulation environment.
• Physical Therapy
  The Physical Therapy Room functions as a rehabilitation gym, equipped with plinths and various mobility assistive devices to support patient therapy and recovery.
• Clinic Exam Room
  There are six exam rooms designed to mimic a provider's office. It is equipped with an exam table and a diagnostic bar featuring blood pressure cuffs, an otoscope, an ophthalmoscope, and a thermometer.
• Home Health Apartment
  The Home Health Apartment is designed as a home environment that includes a murphy bed, living room, kitchen with appliances, and a bathroom with tub and shower.
• Radiology Room
  The Radiology Room is outfitted for the Radiologic Technology program. It is equipped with a portable X-Ray machine, with lead shielded walls to meet radiology safety standards of protecting students and staff from exposure.
• Clinic Reception
  The Clinical Reception Area is the designated area where patients are welcomed and checked in for their appointments.

Standardized Patient

The Standardized Patient (SP) program is dedicated to providing learners with the opportunity to become more compassionate communicators and influential members of the healthcare community.

Standardized Patient Training

SPs are volunteers trained to portray a real patient. SPs are interviewed by students as though they were a person in the hospital, doctor’s office/clinical or community setting, providing patient history and simulating their physical symptoms such as pain or difficulty walking.

If you are interested in volunteering as an SP, please complete the following form.