CNHS's Center for Clinical Education and Research (CCER)

The CCER is a clinical teaching center for students, to simulate patient situations. No classroom can substitute for an emergency room, and no case study is as immediate and has as much impact as the real thing. The CCER will provide students with a powerful and effective learning tool - a laboratory that will enable us to simulate actual patient situations with real-world equipment and scenarios that expose students to learn to make quick decisions that can mean life or death. Simulation offers the opportunity in high-risk, low frequency clinical situations for students to gain experience to improve patient safety and strengthen patient care.

The CCER, scheduled to open in spring 2008, will enable students to practice evidence-based nursing care and exercise science in a risk-free, hands-on environment and enhance their self confidence and performance when they are working with actual patients/clients. It will incorporate the following components that will benefit both the Nursing Department and the Exercise and Health Sciences Department.

• A "smart" classroom for 24 students with a demonstration area and nursing station;
• Three exam rooms with videotaping capability, three exam cubicles with exam tables and all necessary diagnostic equipment
• An enclosed, fully equipped ICU room that allows advanced simulation activities for students and licensed professionals;
• A maternal child health cubicle that can be converted into a birthing unit, pediatric bedside, or homecare setting;
• Six patient bedside cubicles with headwalls for oxygen, suction, monitors, ceiling lifts and IV equipment (simulating an acute care patient room);
• A clinical simulation/competency testing room and a clinical simulation and med room, both with video taping capability;
• A tutorial/study group room and a computer/AV viewing lab;
• An exercise and health sciences teaching center with a "smart" classroom for 18 students and an exercise and fitness testing area; and,
• An AV control room, storage areas, and a reception area.

The College of Nursing and Health Sciences' CCER will develop and nurture knowledgeable, competent, and compassionate nurses and exercise and health sciences professionals who are interested in life-long learning and who will positively impact the health and well being of their patients/clients. The facility will have a tremendous impact on our students, healthcare professionals and the community for years to come.