One room containing a patient simulator can be a great learning tool for nursing students. Eight rooms of patient simulators take that learning to a whole new level.

The eight rooms comprise the Allied Health Sciences Simulation Center, the result of a partnership between Vance-Granville Community College and Maria Parham Medical Center in Henderson, NC. A $153,565 state community college grant helped launch the valuable learning tool.

The lab, which is located at Maria Parham, will provide hands-on experience to students at Vance-Granville. The mannequins in each of the rooms are programmed to show a variety of symptoms and illnesses, and are run by computers that will analyze students’ actions.

Sources: Henderson (NC) Daily Dispatch and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation