The Smart Hospital and Health System (SHHS)

Wednesday, February 23, 2005
12:05-1:15 pm Central Library Parlor

Elizabeth C. Poster, RN., Ph.D., FAAN
Dean, UT Arlington School of Nursing
Editor, Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing

UT Arlington has integrated the use of "simulated" patients (SMART Manikins/high fidelity human patient simulators) to overcome the current "patient bound" restrictions on student education and the development of essential competencies. Plans are to build a Smart Hospital and Health System (SHHS), a virtual multi-specialty health care setting that will permit the UT Arlington School of Nursing and its multidisciplinary partners to develop and test new models and methods for increasing workforce capacity, reducing health care costs, and enhancing safety for health care consumers.

The SHHS will serve as a model training facility for acute, trauma and primary care in an environment that supports implementation and evaluation of best educational practices. It will offer a learning environment in which educational preparation of health care workers can be streamlined, made more efficient and effective, and performance standards objectively verified. The SHHS will also support the design and testing of emergency preparedness models, health care technology innovations, and the design and implementation of workforce capacity building demonstration projects.

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