Emory Nursing Learning Center
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First-in-Class Simulation
At Emory, hands-on learning is key to nursing leadership. Enter, the Emory Nursing Learning Center (ENLC) - 70,000-square-feet of innovative, high-tech, simulation equipment and spaces designed to model real-life clinical spaces. From decked out simulation and high-fidelity labs, operating rooms, a home lab, a true-to-life clinic and nurses station, debrief rooms, classroom spaces, an innovation hub, and more, the ENLC experience sets our Emory Nursing students apart.
Where the Dream Began
The Emory Nursing Learning Center was born out of a dream former School of Nursing Dean Linda McCauley had as a response to the challenge of educating more nursing leaders to address the nation's severe nursing shortage.
About the ENLC
Learning, Reimagined
High-Fidelity Equipment
The Emory Nursing Learning Center employs the latest technology in high-fidelity medical manikins, making this a dynamic and collaborative space for nursing students to train.
A Place to Hone Skills
The skills labs and training rooms include crash carts, monitors, and scrub sinks, and have 26 bed spaces that allow students to practice procedural skills and conduct complex patient scenarios using manikins or standardized patients (actors trained to play the role of a patient). Twelve exam rooms simulate the outpatient setting and are designed to teach and evaluate students’ history taking, physical examination, and communication skills.
Unparalleled Learning Opportunity
The center also houses five hospital-type rooms with a whiteboard near each patient that provides opportunities for students to share pertinent information and plans of care. A four-bed bay area replicates a post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) for post-operative recovery, an infusion center for chemotherapy, a neonatal intensive care area, or a trauma bay.
Advanced Simulated Learning
The ENLC is home to high-fidelity rooms featuring obstetric and pediatric beds and life-like manikins. Here, students can gain specialized experience outside of their clinical rotations.
Train for Advanced Specialties
Focused on high acuity and low volume events where certified registered nurse anesthesia (CRNA) students have access to anesthesia gas machines, anesthesia and emergency carts, operating room supplies, gas supplies, vacuums, and a scrub sink.
Learn to Care in Any Setting
The Home Lab is designed to mimic a real home space where nursing students can practice scenarios including caring for patients in hospice care, post-surgical care, or geriatric home care
An Incubator for Ideas
At the top of the stairs is the innovation hub, a space to nurture new ideas and serve as a springboard for innovation, helping us meet rising health care challenges of a growing and complex population. This floor also includes flexible classrooms, which will incorporate the latest in interactive technology.
Building Features
Students can enjoy a variety of features and spaces throughout the ENLC. Each portion of the building was thoughtfully designed with the student experience in mind.
- Classrooms with the latest technology
- Conference rooms for students, faculty, and staff
- Faculty and staff lounge
- Innovation Hub
- Media recording studio
- New mother's room
- Reception and kitchen areas
- Student commons area
- Student lounge
- Student wellness and meditation room
Simulation Spaces
The ENLC's simulation and advanced learning spaces are designed to educate the best and brightest future nurses. Our high-tech simulated learning experiences combined with our leading clinical partnership help us turn nursing students into nursing leaders. The building includes:
- Briefing rooms
- Exam rooms
- High-fidelity rooms
- A home lab
- Labor and delivery suite
- Operating/trauma room
- Skills labs
- Standardized patient lounge for actors participating in simulations
- Telehealth room
- Traditional hospital rooms
How Simulation Works
Nursing simulation allows students to practice and develop clinical expertise without any risk of patient harm.
Some examples of simulation scenarios include a car accident patient coming into the emergency room, severe asthma in a pediatric patient, or a complicated labor and delivery.
Students go through a process of pre-briefing and debriefing information provided about a patient situation. In the pre-brief, students discuss what they will see and consider actions based on potential situations.
During the simulation scenario, the students are provided with a specific case study that involves either a high-fidelity patient manikin or actors playing the role of patients. Nursing students respond to the scenario as if they were caring for a real patient. Faculty instructors watch and listen through one-way mirrors.
The action is recorded with Point Tilt Zoom (ptz) cameras, which can rapidly deploy focus in any direction and allow faculty and instructors to input assessments, playback encounters, and time stamp areas for further discussion and feedback.
In debriefing, students review and reflect on their actions during the scenario, discussing what went well and what needs to improve. Briefing – both the preparation of going into simulation and the debriefing after simulation – allows the student to learn from the experience, change behavior, and refine skills. This peer-to-peer learning allows students to also practice communication, teamwork, and sharing feedback.
Simulation scenarios can be developed for rare clinical conditions, bedside emergencies, and many other aspects of healthcare in a realistic environment.
Designed for All
Continuing Education
Emory Nursing Experience
The Emory Nursing Experience (ENE) is a professional development partnership between Emory Healthcare Nursing Education and the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing to provide quality, continuing nursing education (CNE) activities that meet learner needs in the dynamic health care environment. The ENE continues to grow and will occupy the fourth floor of the building. The ENE space includes classrooms, conference rooms and a studio.
Operations and Room Reservations
ENLC Facilities
The dedicated operations team at the ENLC is here for your operations needs. Use the button below for room reservation requests, work orders, media inquiries, event and space rentals, etc.
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Request a Tour
Our team is available to provide tours of the simulation spaces at the Emory Nursing Learning Center. To schedule a tour, please use the button below.