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Orvis School of Nursing assistant professor Michele Pelter ’93 (nursing) teaches nursing students in the new skills lab, which is designed to mirror a patient care unit and features birthing beds, infant warmers and an assortment of hospital and clinical beds outfitted with cameras to optimize skills technique refinement. 6Nevada Silver & Blue • Summer 2011 represent improvements over existing facilities. Ruchala agrees that the new technology will greatly enhance the learning opportunities for students: “We now have a high-tech health care training center to prepare students for the high-tech work setting of today’s health care professions.” She notes that the human patient simulators that nursing students have been using at Orvis’ Redfield campus for the past five or six years are quite good, but those in new building are the latest models. Students will also take advantage of “standardized patient education”—actors portraying patients with a variety of symptoms or distressed family members—in the new facility in “patient encounter” rooms, which will enhance their interactions with real patients during clinical rotations. Camron Wipfli ’10 (biology), a second-year medical student who toured the building, says: “The patient encounter rooms are absolutely incredible. It’s like you’re walking into an actual doctor’s office. These are true testing facilities.” Wipfli notes that the instrumentation in the “The patient encounter rooms are absolutely incredible. It’s like you’re walking into an actual doctor’s office.” Camron Wipfli ’10 second-year medical student new rooms is far better than what the school had last year. “The opthalmoscopes [instruments for viewing the interior of eye] and otoscopes [instruments for viewing inside the ear] are the highest technology there is. Prior, we were just using old-school devices, and we had a very difficult time focusing. The reality is that medicine is constantly modernizing, so training facilities have to keep up. All in all, the new building is making for a much better educational experience for us students and we are really excited about it.” Says Shonkwiler: “The Pennington Health Sciences Building provides opportunities to create realistic education activities as we work toward building team structures in the health care environment.” Instead of only one discipline working with patient simulators, teams of nursing and medical students will learn, for example, the
Anderson Health Sciences Center for Molecular Medicine Nellor Biomedical Sciences North Medical Way Savitt Medical Science Manville Health Science Howard Medical Sciences Enterprise Rd. Whittemore-Peterson Institute William N. Pennington Health Sciences Building Nevada State Health Lab Nell J. Redfield Building Mackay Stadium Student Health Center (Brigham Building) South Medical Way William N. Pennington Medical Education Building William Peccole Park NEVADA The new William N. Pennington Health Sciences Building is the latest addition to Division of Health Sciences facilities and will be the headquarters for the Orvis School of Nursing. complicated teamwork necessary to save the life of a person experiencing cardiac arrest, known as “Code Blue” or “crashing.” This classic situation—when the heart essentially stops beating—is a medical emergency, but isn’t necessarily fatal if the patient is resuscitated immediately. Resuscitation requires a complex choreography of difficult procedures, which can include administering drugs, inserting a breathing tube and intravenous catheters, applying a defibrillator, as well as other measures. Each person on the “crash team” must work quickly and with precision, like a band playing music. In real-life, cardiac arrest is random, and therefore students may or may not have the opportunity to learn how to be part of a crash team. But with human patient simulators and actors, nursing and medical students can practice playing their parts well in advance of a real emergency. “We are creating relationships between future practitioners in the two fields, while these future health care professionals are still students,” Shonkwiler says. “The goal is to increase communication between medical professionals and provide better patient outcomes.” Nursing and medical students will all begin classes in the new facility in the fall semester. The Pennington Health Sciences Building, which adheres to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) equivalent standards, makes optimal use of its site with an offset floor plan of two wings, creating exterior courtyards and a free flow between interior and exterior spaces. The main entrance is on the north side, facing McCarran Boulevard, with direct access to parking and companion buildings. The building design used the site slope for a discreet lower-level receiving area. Funding for the Pennington Health Sciences Building included $3 million for planning allocated by the 2007 Nevada State Legislature, $31 million in construction bonding approved by the 2009 Nevada legislature’s capital improvement project budget, as well as a naming gift from the William N. Pennington Foundation. Other major benefactors include the Nell J. Redfield Foundation, Thelma B. and Thomas P. Hart Foundation, and Renown Health. nN —Anne McMillin, APR, public relations manager for the University of Nevada School of Medicine —Melanie Robbins ’06M.A. contributed to this article Nevada Silver & Blue • Summer 2011 7
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