A safe learning environment with life-like simulators to enhance patient care skills
The Holli Counts and Joseph Grendys Simulation Center at Erlanger provides hands-on training for Erlanger’s direct patient care staff and students. The center features lifelike, high-fidelity patient simulators - or mannequins - each with unique capabilities to replicate real-life scenarios. The center offers a safe learning environment for staff to practice high-accuracy skills they might not get to do very frequently – all with the goal of improving patient outcomes.
For Simulation and non-Simulation Events
Reservation Request Forms
Internal requests will book Sim Center rooms through EHS Outlook account. All requests should include the exact title of the event.
All dates are reserved as tentative until the Simulation Center Reservation Request Form has been completed with an agenda.
The event coordinator will be responsible for resetting all rooms reserved for the event.
Non-Simulation Events
This reservation involves lecture and textbook-style instruction rather than demonstration and/or mimics clinical scenario. Clinical Placement/Facility Expectation and Guidelines.
Non-Simulation Event RequestSimulation Event Request
This reservation involves demonstration and/or mimics a clinical scenario. Simulation is defined as the use of tools, devices, and/or the environment to mimic a particular aspect of clinical care.
Simulation-Based Learning RequestThe Simulation Center exists to prepare learners from our regional healthcare community to deliver safe, high quality and compassionate evidence-based care through the utilization of innovative simulation in a collaborative teaching environment.
The Simulation Center aims to improve patient outcomes, quality measures, and critical thinking, while fostering interdisciplinary teamwork, instilling confidence, and increasing professional fulfillment.
- Excellence: We authenticate competency in skills by integrating various teaching modalities to continually pursue excellence in patient care.
- Respect: Our educators model respect by our actions and words as we interact with those we train.
- Leadership: We lead by example through modeling integrity, fostering creativity, and developing professional practice skills.
- Accountability: We practice low frequency/high risk events to ensure accountability for meeting the needs of the community we serve.
- Nurturing: We promote a culture of safety by maintaining a nurturing and supportive learning environment.
- Generosity: We integrate community events to generously advocate for individuals from diverse populations.
- Ethics: We recognize our obligation to teach and prepare learners for real world challenges.
- Recognition: We develop and implement interprofessional simulation activities to recognize the value of teamwork and collaboration.