Nursing School Simulation Room F

The room I chose for this assignment was in the new nursing school on Kingsely St. in the Kerrytown area. The building was designed by the architecture firm RDG Planning and Designing. This company has done a lot of work in Iowa and Nebraska for colleges, and this is their first building in Michigan. I had to search for an interesting room in the building because I initially went to the upstairs of the building where there were only study spaces. I finally discovered the basement where there were a treasure trove of "classrooms." This is one of the "classrooms" (what they call simulation rooms) in the basement. It is an exact replica of a hospital suite with an observing area for the instructor. The room has all the medical equipment necessary to learn about hospice care. There is a screen that the student can receive data on and machines that allow them to care for the patient accordingly.

The class room is typically just for one student and one teacher, whom are separated by the mirrored glass. I would imagine that this room is usually used for testing students to measure their proficiency. It is probably used for larger group lectures and demonstrations as well, but the nice lady who showed me in made it seem like it was going to be used for a test. There was a dummy patient laying in the bed with a neck brace and a terrifying smile. There were some charts on the computer for the patient and some more information on another screen behind the computer. I believe these screens were controlled by the instructor's to test the student's knowledge of various ailments.

The instructor's room had two computers in it with, what seemed like, fairly advanced software that allowed the instructor to change the diagnostics of the patient. The mirrored wall is very reminiscent of a prison interrogation room or something, but I think for this educational practice it makes sense. There are multiple seats in the observation room that are perhaps for a larger examination with multiple proctors or professors. Both rooms were beige, and fairly simple in design. They both had a drop ceiling and had plastic baseboard. The whole vibe of the rooms is institutional, which works for both the education and hospital setting.