| Construction Begins on Healthy Communities Innovation Center New high tech learning facility at School of Nursing will support team-based, interprofessional learning, transforming nursing education for a changing health care environment The long-awaited facility will renovate the 25 year-old existing nursing skills laboratory, expanding it to four times the size. When completed by January 2013, the Healthy Communities Innovation Center will be a catalyst to create: - Team-based coordinated care integrating curricula across health science disciplines.
- Interdisciplinary learning scenarios that closely reflect current and future nursing care and health care innovation, simulating the full continuum of patient care to enhance quality, safety, coordination and continuity in health care delivery.
- Expanded nursing and health professional training by using health information technology to improve care across delivery settings, support performance measures and reporting, and provide decision support.
- An interprofessional culture in which students develop leadership skills that prepare them to serve as partners in transforming care.
- Designing and testing of new technologies and new care ideas, centered on increased patient safety and the overall care experience.
- An opportunity for established practitioners within the field to test, renew and update skills and enhance team development practices.
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