Curriculum Support
The primary objective of the Mary Smart Simulation
Center is to support the curriculum of the nursing and allied health
programs offered by Pensacola Junior College. It accomplishes this by
offering alternative clinical experiences in a low risk environment. In
addition to preparing for clinical assignments, students are allowed
experiences that they would not receive in the clinical setting. By
projecting scenarios into the classroom, the Center assists faculty
members with theory presentations.
The nursing programs are the major scheduled users of the Center. Each
student enrolled in nursing courses receives a total of twenty five
structured scenarios plus six hours using Harvey and the Virtual IV as a
portion of the required clinical hours. The alternative clinical
experiences scheduled in the simulation center constitute approximately
ten percent of the clinical hours associated with the course.
Each scenario is designed by the Education Director of the Center and
the nursing course coordinator, and approved by the nursing curriculum
committee, to insure that the content and schedule are appropriate for
the course objectives and calendar. Scenario sessions are scheduled for
two hours over a two week period. Students sign up online for a session
within each two week block at a time convenient to them. Sessions are
available six days a week from 7:00 AM until 7:00 PM. Scenario sessions
are clinical hours, and attendance requirements are the same as those
for hours scheduled in the hospital.
The scenario protocol used for the Adult Health courses allows six
students to sign up for a two hour session. Except for scenarios
associated with Introduction to Nursing, each session includes a
pre-test and a post-test. After taking report and reviewing the chart,
three students participate in a scenario that lasts about twenty
minutes. The other three students observe from a debriefing room where
they are given a set of minimum expectations of the participants. They
record their observations for discussion in the debriefing. The instructor is in the
control room where she or he directs the scenario, sometimes with the
assistance of a technician. From the control room students are given
cues and directions using two way radios. Sometimes actors are sent into
the suite as a member of the healthcare team or as a family member. At
the end of the scenario the three students go to the debriefing room and
the three observers participate in a slightly altered scenario.
Afterwards all six students and the instructor review selected portions
of the scenarios and conduct the debriefing.
Introduction to Nursing students follow the same scheduling process. All
six students participate at the bedside in the scenario with the
instructor, three observing while three participate and then swapping
roles. Debriefing is conducted at the bedside without video.
Maternal scenarios are scheduled in the LDRP. They are five hours in
length and include more instructor teaching and involvement. Over the
course each student participates in one normal delivery and one delivery
with complications. Following a delivery, students are assigned to mange
a normal newborn and a newborn with complications. The scenarios are
sometimes recorded for debriefing, but other times the instructor
intervenes during the session with a general debriefing in the LDRP
following the scenario. Postpartum scenarios follow the Adult Health
protocol.
Beginning with the 2008 spring semester, respiratory therapy students
from Gulf Coast Community College, and their satellite program at PJC,
are scheduled to receive simulations to support their coursework.
Paramedic students also are being scheduled in a similar fashion, using
the recently installed wireless ETC systems in the emergency room and
home care simulation labs. Also, many of the nursing scenarios are being
enhanced as multidisciplinary sessions to include students from the
Phlebotomy, Radiologic Technology, and Paramedic programs.
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The Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools has accredited Pensacola Junior College to award the associate's degree. |
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