Education
BY AUBREY VOGEL
UH nursing centers receive accreditation
The features
The centers feature technology that allows students to practice techniques learned in lecture before heading to local hospitals for clinicals, Tart said in an interview. The Katy facility mirrors areas students will see in the hospitals they practice, including: • Four high delity simulation rooms with life-like mannequins • Two bays with 10 beds each • Eight assessment rooms • Medication room • Debrie ng room Tart said students are able to re ne skills including head-to-toe assessments, pediatric care, and birth and death simulations, due to the expansiveness of the facility.
The University of Houston’s Andy and Barbara Gessner College of Nursing received an accreditation in December for its nursing simulators in Katy and Sugar Land. The HCA Houston Healthcare Nursing Simulation Center located at UH at Katy and the Methodist Sugar Land Hospital Nursing Simulation Center at UH at Sugar Land are the rst and only Greater Houston college facilities to receive this accreditation from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare, said Kathryn Tart, dean of the college of nursing. “Faced with a nursing shortage, our state-of- the-art simulation centers help us educate more nurses where clinical excellence and leadership are central,” Tart said in a university news release. With the accreditation, the two UH centers are named among the top educational facilities where medical students and professionals can practice performing health care scenarios, according to the Society for Simulation in Healthcare website. The accreditation for both facilities will last ve years.
Katy nursing students can use the center to practice skills learned in the classroom.
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About the program
BSN enrollment at Katy campus
The Andy and Barbara Gessner College of Nursing instructional site at Katy opened in fall 2019, bringing its rst cohort of 16 students. Since its inception, the Katy program has grown to 116 students this spring semester. Tart said she would like to see the program grow to 240 students at the Katy location.
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