A new custom-built space at the Marple Education Center in Broomall gives nursing students opportunities to experience real-life situations, writes Justin Udo for KWY Newsradio.
The multi-million-dollar upgrade from the Delaware County Intermediate Unit adds four new classrooms and two simulation labs.
“It’s great for the students to be able to practice on a non-human first and so they can make as many mistakes as they need to, to really learn the skill before we go out to clinical sites and work with real people,” said Stacy Delaney, supervisor of the DCIU nursing program
The labs can be adjusted to appear as a whole maternity ward or surgical floor to simulate real locations in hospitals.
This way, students can walk into a new career with confidence that they’ve already experienced a situation or procedure.
The new facility also means they can grow from 100 to 200 graduates a year, helping to slow a shortage of healthcare workers in Delaware County.
“One of the big parts of the nursing shortage is a shortage of nursing educators and being able to provide a larger space we’re just going to be able to chip away at that nursing shortage,” Delaney said.
Read more about the upgraded space for DCIU’s nursing program at KYW Newsradio.
