Accessibility works and a Clinical Simulation Laboratory for teaching undergraduate, postgraduate and residency students were inaugurated on Friday (13) at the Unicamp School of Nursing (Fenf).
Delivered at a ceremony attended by Dean Paulo César Montagner, the Clinical Simulation Laboratory will enable simulations involving the daily lives of healthcare professionals, such as direct care scenarios, communicating difficult news to family members of patients in serious condition and even scenarios for job interviews.
The structural accessibility improvements and the inauguration of the Simulation Laboratory were possible thanks to the Alegra Public Notices and a Faepex teaching project – which aims to improve the teaching infrastructure and promote an adequate teaching-learning environment for students.
Professor Ariane Polidoro Dini, coordinator of the Nursing Undergraduate course, says that in the case of clinical simulations, high-fidelity simulators and software were acquired that allows simulating care for children, adults or elderly people.
As a student performs an action or procedure in the simulator, the multiparameter monitor will respond, representing clinical changes consistent with real life in a healthcare environment. Thus, the simulation scenario allows the student to make clinical decisions in a controlled and safe environment in the teaching-learning process.
Another example of using the laboratory is the development of communication skills, such as in a “breaking bad news” scenario, in subjects that address care for seriously ill people or in palliative care subjects.
In the simulation, the class is divided between students who watch via simultaneous transmission and students who act in the simulated scenario. Later, the students who participated in the scenario return to the room where there was simultaneous transmission for reflection and discussion with teachers and other students about the simulated practice scenario. During the reflection, called “debriefing”, student feelings and considerations about what could have been done differently enable meaningful learning, so that care is safer and more humane.
“The laboratory will provide training that encompasses different skills and abilities necessary for the work of a healthcare professional,” says the coordinator.
The dean of Unicamp said that he is familiar with the history of the nursing course at Unicamp and that the unit has shown consistent progress. “I have been following the work of Fenf for many years and I have witnessed that they have managed to advance the equipment at the unit that improves teaching and research. It is admirable,” said the dean.
“This laboratory will allow students, in a controlled situation, to be exposed to different teaching situations that they will later encounter in real life,” he recalls. “As in a learning phase, they receive all the theoretical training, go through a laboratory like this and then go on to do internships in our hospitals. In other words, we are providing very solid training,” concludes the dean.
opening ceremony
The inauguration ceremony of the new laboratory was attended by the Chief of Staff of the Rector's Office, Professor Oswaldir Taranto, the Director of Fenf, Roberta Cunha, and Professor Juliany Lino Gomes Silva, associate coordinator of the undergraduate course and coordinator of Fenf laboratories. Also present were Professors Christiane Marques do Couto, advisor to the Pro-Rector's Office for Undergraduate Studies, and Maria Helena Melo Lima, associate director of Fenf.
