Forum Session: Integrated, multi-discipline learning programs that mimic the real world of a health center

To make your health science graduates the employees of choice in the real world of healthcare, make your teaching facility look and function like the real world of healthcare. Here, session leaders set out the integrated planning processes, teaching program design, and decision-making on facilities, equipment, and capital investment details to make that vision a reality. They illustrate new pedagogies and facility plans incorporating such real-world features as functioning headwalls, the use of lifts, bar coding, automated dispensing technologies, and materials management systems -- and the difference this is making in the success of graduates.

This session is approved for AIA Continuing Education credit.

• Wendell D. Brown, AIA, LEED AP , Project Designer - Earl Swensson Associates, Inc.
  
• Misty Chambers, RN, MSN, Assoc. AIA , Clinical Operations/Design Specialist - Earl Swensson Associates, Inc.
  
• Debra Wollaber, RN, PhD , Professor of Nursing and Founding Dean, College of Health Sciences and Nursing - Belmont University