Media Advisory: UA College of Nursing to Host Live Simulation of Inter-professional Care

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A group of graduate students from four different professional programs will perform their first live-simulation with standardized patients taking the role of military veterans with multiple chronic conditions for faculty and stakeholders at 1:30 p.m. Monday, April 7, in room 1008 at The University of Alabama’s Capstone College of Nursing.

Media are invited to attend a session in which graduate students from the Colleges of Nursing, Community Health Sciences, Human Environmental Sciences and the School of Social Work will split into four groups for two different sessions of the live simulations that will feature graduate students from the UA department of theatre and dance serving as military veteran patients with multiple chronic conditions.

Faculty members will observe and interact with students remotely from a specially-designed control room. Students will be debriefed by faculty at 3 p.m.; the debriefing session will be open to the public.

This activity is supported by two federally funded training grants. One grant is from the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of Rural Health. This grant funds a joint UA-Tuscaloosa VA program that trains students to better care for rural veterans.

The other grant is from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to the College of Nursing, in collaboration with the Colleges of Community Health Sciences, Human Environmental Sciences and the School of Social Work. This grant implements a collaborative, team-based approach to working with patients who have multiple chronic conditions.

The process will simulate an extended patient interview by students from each of the aforementioned professional programs showcasing a streamlined approach to caring for rural patients. Through participating in the simulation event and the extended grant activities, students involved will be better able to participate in collaborative care teams when they graduate and enter practice.

For more information, contact David Miller, media relations, 205/348-0825 or dcmiller2@ur.ua.edu or Shane Dorrill (broadcast media only), 205/348-8319, sdorrill@ur.ua.edu.

For further details about the grants and programs, click here and here.