Lifelike Training

Although the patients in WSU’s newly updated Annie Taylor Dee Simulation Center aren’t real — they’re high-tech mannequins — they teach students how to react and perform in a lifelike medical environment.

Improvements took the center from a 10-bed, open-room setting with 10 standard mannequins to a suite with upgraded features, including: 

  • Five individual simulation rooms equipped with five technologically sophisticated mannequins. Students can ventilate patients, measure blood pressure, check pulses, watch pupils for dilation, observe laryngeal spasms and more.
  • A nurse practitioner suite with five rooms, each furnished with specific equipment for pelvic, orthopedic, ear/nose/throat, cardiovascular, pulmonary and metabolic procedures. 
  • Audio and visual equipment throughout, giving professors the ability to observe students, alter patient scenarios and symptoms, and give immediate feedback.

The Dee Simulation Center, located on the third floor of the Marriott Allied Health building, will allow for interdisciplinary teamwork among nursing, respiratory therapy, emergency care and rescue, and radiologic sciences students.