Minnesota Nursing Magazine Spring/Summer 2012 - School of ...

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The HCIC will include simulated environments that span the continuum of care. These include acute, skilled,
ambulatory, and home care settings. The acute care space can be modified to be critical care, medical-surgical
care, or an emergency room.
“As our nation’s health care system continues to evolve, we must ensure that future
nursing and other health care professionals are exceptionally well prepared to meet health
care’s growing demands,” says Dean Connie Delaney. “HCIC is a high-tech learning facility
that will invite interprofessional engagement with the faculty expertise and capability
to simulate health care team experiences before practicing in the field. Students will
significantly expand their knowledge and ability to learn new and emerging processes
essential for improved patient care.”
hcic highlights
• Contemporary simulation-oriented learning environment. Students will learn skills
from the basic to specialist level, acute to primary care, in diverse delivery settings with
multiple disciplines.
• Technologically sophisticated classrooms delivering professional education in nursing
and the health sciences.
• Integration of electronic health records (EHR) and supportive technologies across health
care environments.
• Four times larger than the current 25-year old skills lab allowing for a potential 14 percent
increase in student enrollment.
• Environment where innovative interventions will be discovered, taught, and
implemented into practice.
• Opportunity for new collaborative partnerships with health systems, and
technology innovators.
• Observation space and a control room, demonstration and debriefing area, and small and
large classrooms.
• Began construction May 2012; complete construction December 2012; student use,
January 2013.
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Join us in transforming health care education to improve the lives of countless citizens who
will benefit from improved care, effective leadership, and innovative practices. To learn how
you can support the Healthy Communities Innovation Center, please contact
Gigi Fourré Schumacher at 612-625-1365 or gschumac@umn.edu.
Read the HCIC case statement and view additional architectural drawings at
www.nursing.umn.edu/hcic.
Interprofessional
Advisory Committee
Connie Delaney
Professor and Dean, School of Nursing
John Reiling
Chair, School of Nursing Foundation
Judith A. Buchanan
Interim Dean, School of Dentistry
Thomas Henderson
Coordinator of e-Learning,
Academic Health Center
Barbara Brandt
Associate Vice President,
Academic Health Center
Elizabeth Fine
Liaison and Instruction Librarian,
Health Sciences Libraries
Kathleen Harder
Director, Center for Design in Health,
College of Design
Charles Taylor
Senior Associate Dean Professional Education,
College of Pharmacy
Maria B. Killos
Instructor, Veterinary Clinical Sciences,
College of Veterinary Medicine
Robert Sweet
Associate Professor, School of Medicine
Daniel K. Zismer
Associate Professor, School of Public Health
Raymond A. Gensinger, Jr.
Chief Medical Information Officer, Fairview
Health System
Sandra Edwardson
Vice Dean of Academic Mission,
School of Nursing
Bonnie Westra
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Thomas Clancy
Clinical Professor and Assistant Dean
for Faculty Practice, Partnerships, and
Professional Development
M. Ann Moser
School of Nursing Foundation Board
Stuart Speedie
Co-director, Biomedical Health Informatics
Institute Health Informatics
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