Education-Innovation-Simulation Learning Environment (EISLE)
The School of Nursing’s Education-Innovation-Simulation Learning Environment (EISLE) Team:
Carol Fowler Durham, EdD, RN, ANEF, Clinical Professor & Director, CERC
Phone: (919) 966-1753
Darlene E. Baker, RN, MSN, Assistant Director, Education-Innovation-Simulation Learning Environment (EISLE)
Phone: (919) 843-8529
Megan Goodwin, Research Specialist (Operations Manager, EISLE)
Phone: (919) 966-4654
EISLE Quick Facts
- 12 lab rooms:
- 5 simulation rooms
- 3 dedicated fundamental skills rooms
- 2 dedicated health assessment rooms
- 2 joint health assessment/skills rooms
- Full Body Training Manikins (some are new and some are up to 20 years old)
- 19 beds with full body manikins
- 2 pediatric full body manikins
- 1 geriatric full body manikin
- 12 Simulators:
- Gaumard: Noelle 575, Newborn Hal 575, Noelle 575.100, Newborn Hal 575.100
- CAE Healthcare: HPS, PEDS HPS, ECS, PECS, METIMan, BabySIM,
- Laerdal: VitalSIM Annie, Voice Assisted CPR Manikin
- Computer-based training:
- Cath-Sim virtual IV/phlebotomy training module
- OtoSim and Pneumo OtoSim ear diagnostic training system
- OpthoSim eye diagnostic training system
- Task trainers:
- 43 IV venipuncture arms
- 11 infant and pediatric venipuncture trainers
- 4 BP trainers
- 17 Tutor MS heart/lung/bowel simulators for auscultation practice
- 2 Infant auscultation trainers
- 4 nasogastric/tracheostomy trainers
- 5 Surgical Sally wound trainers
- 9 Chester Chest central line training models
- 10 ADAM eye models with slides to replicate eye diseases
- Safe Patient Handling and Movement Equipment
- HoverMatt
- MaxiSky ceiling lift
- MaxiMove floor lift
- Sit to Stand device
- Friction reduction moving sheets
Human Patient Simulations used in the EISLE labs
- N360 Adult Geriatric Red Yoder with CAE HPS
- N364 Adult Med-Surg, Part I Alex Jones and Bobby Williams with CAE HPS
- N472 Infants, Children, and their Families with HPS Pediatric Simulator and Peds ECS
- N479 Maternity Simulation with Gaumard Noelle 575.100, Newborn Hal 575.100, and CAE HPS
- N591 Med-Surg Part II with CAE HPS
Other Simulations in the EISLE labs
- N470 Public Health Simulation Community Health Home Visit with a standardized patient
- Poverty Simulation
- Obesity Simulation
Students in the EISLE per semester
- Undergraduate:
- Each student individually spends 52-53 hours in the EISLE labs/simulation rooms before graduation, spread out over either 4 (ABSN, n = 64) or 6 (BSN, n = 104) semesters.
- Spring Semester 464 students per semester
- 64 ABSN students in N360 Concepts, Processes, and Skills for Evidence-Based Nursing labs
- Each student spends 34 hours in labs
- 3 hours/week x 10 weeks (1920 student hours)
- 4 hours/semester for evaluations/simulation (256 student hours)
- 64 ABSN students in N362 Pharmacology Competency (0.5 hour per student) (32 student hours)
- 64 students in N470 Public Health Nursing Simulation (each student attends a 1.5 hour block) (96 student hours)
- 64 students in N472 Nursing Care of Infants, Children, and their Families Simulations x 8 hours (each student attends a 4-hour block) (256 student hours)
- 104 students in N479 Maternal/Newborn Nursing Simulations x 18 hours (each student attends a 3-hour block) (312 student hours)
- 104 students in N591 Nursing Care of Adults with Major Health Problems, II Simulations x 12 hours (each student attends a 1-hour session) (104 student hours)
- 64 ABSN students in N360 Concepts, Processes, and Skills for Evidence-Based Nursing labs
- Summer Semester 64 students per semester
- 64 ABSN students in lab for N364 Medical-Surgical
- Each student spends 9 hours in labs
- 2 3-hour labs for the semester (384 student hours)
- 1 hour for evaluation (64 student hours)
- 1 hour for Cath-Sim simulation (3 students per hour)(22 student hours)
- Simulations x 2 days (each student attends a 1-hour simulation) (64 student hours)
- Fall Semester 648 students per semester
- 104 BSN students in N360 Concepts, Processes, and Skills for Evidence-Based Nursing labs
- 3 hours/week x 10 weeks (3120 student hours)
- 3 hours/semester for evaluations/simulation (312 student hours)
- Each student spends 33 hours in labs
- 104 BSN students in N362 Pharmacology Competency (0.5 hour per student) (52 student hours)
- 104 BSN students in lab for N364 Nursing Care of Adults with Major Health Problems, I
- Each student spends 9 hours in labs
- 2 3-hour labs for the semester (624 student hours)
- 1 hour for evaluation (104 student hours)
- 1 hour for Cath-Sim simulation (3 students per hour)(35 student hours)
- Simulations x 2 days (each student attends a 1-hour simulation) (104 student hours)
- 104 students in N470 Public Health Nursing Simulation (each student attends a 1.5 hour block) (156 student hours)
- 104 students in N472 Nursing Care of Infants, Children, and their Families Simulations x 8 hours (each student attends a 4-hour block) (260 student hours)
- 64 students in N479 Maternal/Newborn Nursing Simulations x 18 hours (each student attends a 3-hour block) (192 student hours)
- 64 students in N591 Nursing Care of Adults with Major Health Problems, II Simulations x 12 hours (each student attends a 1-hour session) (64 student hours)
- 104 BSN students in N360 Concepts, Processes, and Skills for Evidence-Based Nursing labs
- Graduate NP students:
- Pediatric NP Students (n = 20)
- 6 3-hour labs during Fall Semester first year (420 student hours)
- 1 1-hour check off during Fall Semester first year (20 student hours)
- Adult/Family/Psychiatric NP Students (n = 80)
- 14 3-hour labs during Fall Semester first year (3360 student hours)
- 2 1-hour check offs during Fall Semester first year (160 student hours)
- Pediatric NP Students (n = 20)
- 64 ABSN students in lab for N364 Medical-Surgical
Teaching Assistant Mentorship
- We hire 6 Teaching Assistants (TAs) each year and mentor them into the role of a nurse educator. Each TA is assigned a lab section or two to teach all semester,
Posts about simulation activities in EISLE
- Carol Durham Honored as SSH Director of the Year
- Systems Thinking Using a Table-top Simulation Experience
- Carolina Nursing students prepare for a future COVID-19 vaccine
- NLN / Boise State University 4th Biennial Simulation Conference
- UNCsim Team at IMSH2018
- Dr. Durham live streamed from SimGHOSTS
- Baker Receives STTI Beta Nu Chapter’s Excellence in Education Award
- Durham receives SSH Presidential Citation
- Dr. Durham featured in Medical Training Magazine
- UNC and NCSU team up for One Health case
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