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BY ANDY YANEZ
HCA Healthcare Center for Clinical Advancement Hospital system’s training center prepares nurses, leaders across the region in Pearland E mployees within HCA Hous- ton Healthcare from across the area and beyond could Inside the facility there are various classrooms and simulation labs decked out with technology from multiple TV screens, computers and tablets as well
DUMMY CARE The HCA Healthcare Center for Clinical Advancement has various human simulators, which are lifelike dolls that can be programmed to train nurses through di erent scenarios. Not all simulators can be used for similar training scenarios. Simulators can: • Sweat • Cry • Excrete goo, uid • Be controlled through computers, tablets SOURCE: HCA HOUSTON HEALTHCARE COMMUNITY IMPACT NEWSPAPER
nd themselves going through the health care provider’s training facility in Pearland. The HCA Healthcare Center for Clinical Advancement is celebrating its one-year anniversary after it opened
as life-size, realistic human simula- tors—or dummies—and a replica of a hospital supply room. “It’s supposed to create a hospital environment,” Henry said. One program HCA Healthcare’s
Sarah Prial, division director of simulation and technology at HCA Healthcare Center for Clinical Advancement, stands next to the facility’s Apollo adult patient simulator.
its doors in summer 2021. The center for clinical advance- ment is the only facility of its kind in the Greater Houston area, said Diane Henry, the vice president for clinical education at the HCA Center for Clin- ical Advancement. “HCA corporate
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HCA Healthcare Center for Clinical Advancement 11200 Broadway St., Bldg. 200, Pearland 346-378-9445 www.hcahoustonhealthcare.com Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m.-5p.m. nurse coordinators to those for admin- istration directors, she said. “Our senior executive team has a major mindset or intentional focus on what we call human capital or developing our leaders,” Maxie said. The HCA Healthcare Center for Clinical Advancement helps connect numerous employees with connecting classrooms, which allow anyone to participate in classes remotely, and also in the simulation labs, said Sarah Prial, the division director of simula- tion and technology. “‘The sky’s the limit’ is what I tell our educators,” Prial said.
Gulf Coast Divi- sion hosts at the center for clinical advancement is its Specialty Training Apprenticeship for Registered Nurses Residency Program. The program on the department to which a person is hired, and it consists of three components: a can last up to a year, depending
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THAT OUR NURSES AND FRONT LINE STAFF ARE TRULY TAKING CARE OF OUR PATIENTS, ... WE NEED TO ENSURE THAT WE DEVELOP OUR LEADERS.” SAMANTHA MAXIE, HCA HOUSTON HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP, ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
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training of nurses and medical person- nel, the second oor o ers a di erent focus: growing HCA Houston Health- care’s employees as leaders. “What HCA has noted is that in order to ensure that our nurses and front-line sta are truly taking care of our patients—and we are putting our patients’ health as the forefront—we need to ensure that we develop our leaders,” said Samantha Maxie, director of leadership and organizational development. The Pearland location is simulta- neously running six programs, which range from curriculum for clinical
as well as the [Gulf Coast] Division have made a signi cant investment in clinical education and training and development as a whole,” Henry said. Under clinical education, HCA Houston Healthcare has focused on training nurses and is expecting to stretch into other clinical areas, Henry said. The Pearland facility o ers state- of-the-art equipment and connected classrooms for two populations: graduate nurses and incumbent sta .
classroom and lecture series; a sim- ulation component; and a preceptor stage, which is when a new graduate is assigned to a preceptor, or mentor, and given shifts at the hospital they are hired at, Henry said. Growing leaders While the rst oor of the facility is dedicated to hands-on and didactic
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