In the Spotlight: Boise State University
Submitted By: Janet Lo
Full Center Name: College of Health Science Simulation Center

Center Location: Boise, Idaho, USA
Year Opened: 2010
Center Mission Statement: Our mission is to provide experiential learning and research opportunities for learners and faculty using state-of-the-art technologies and best practices in simulation education. We aim to promote the use of simulation in health science education to meet the needs for collaboration, communication and teamwork resulting in improved care, enhanced safety, and reduction of human error. Our vision is to be recognized as an accredited, state-of-the-art simulation center in health science education and research in northwest America.

Bragging Points:

• We were the first center in Idaho to be fully accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and one of the first 50 in the US.
• We are also one of the few accredited Nationwide in both Research and Teaching/Education.
• We’ve hosted 4 National League for Nursing/Boise State University Simulation conferences. Our School of Nursing Simulation team won the University Foundation Excellence Award for Team Collaboration.

What makes your team work well?

• We’re powered by creativity and innovation to make our simulations the best they possibly can be.
• We worked with our simulation team through the pandemic to ensure students fulfilled their program’s clinical hour requirements.
• Our program constantly evolves to support the changing needs of our students and the ever-growing community of Boise.

Additional Information About Your Center: https://www.boisestate.edu/healthsciences-simulation/

Learner Groups Supported

• Nurses

Is there a GTA/MUTA program?

• No

Center Name By the Numbers

• Control Room: 1
• Counseling Room:  1
• Critical Care Room: 3
• Debriefing Room: 3
• Exam Room: 6
• Lounge/Kitchen/SP Staging Room: 1
• Monitoring Room: 3
• Residential/Home Visit Room: 1
• Other: Our center mimics an actual medical facility with a hallway, nurses' station, patient rooms, functioning headwalls, crash carts, and set ups for Telehealth simulations, all of which is visible from the control room and equipped with video cameras for live monitoring. We have 3 practice labs with a total of 18 beds, and rooms for home visits and intake office. Our self-care room is a calm environment where students, faculty, and staff can de-stress through meditation, yoga or other reflective activities.
• Do the counseling/exam Rooms have 1-way mirrors? No
• Recording System: Other
• Employees/Staff of Center or Program (excluding SP): 9
• Staff Managing SP Program: 1
• Number of SPs: 20
• Total SP Hours Worked in One Year: 2,378

Please direct any questions about the College of Health Science Simulation Center to Janet Lo

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