GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Advocate Aurora Health’s new simulation center gives healthcare workers a chance to experience realistic situations before they happen in clinical practice.
Inside the labor and delivery simulation lab, you might find healthcare workers practicing the process of delivering a baby.
“Having a simulation center that virtually replicates what we have on labor and delivery, it prepares us for those unexpected, rare but dangerous moments,” Aurora BayCare Medical Center OBGYN Dr. Stephen Sehring said.
The Green Bay-based facility is one of the health system’s biggest simulation centers.
The facility features labor and delivery, medical surgical and emergency department trauma simulation rooms.
“Pretty much any patient care scenario that you can think of we can replicate in the lab,” Advocate Aurora Health simulation education specialist Lisa Resch said.
Advocate Aurora Health simulation manager Jeanne Wiesbrock tells FOX 11 it gives staff members a safe environment to work.
“Talk as a team, work through the situation and then be able to debrief on the situation after the actual event or simulation is complete.”
Wiesbrock says the simulation team played a part in the transitions healthcare workers faced due to the pandemic.
“We had to transition very quickly and the simulation team was called on to really help teams work through different processes of entering patient rooms, actually resuscitating patients, we changed really our whole focus on how we resuscitate so that our healthcare providers are safe and our patients are safe.”
Sehring says things are changing in healthcare all of the time, which is why continuing education for staff is important.
“You know we’re lifelong learners. And we just don’t go to school and go to work and that’s the end of it. We’ll continue to do this our whole careers.”
Advocate Aurora says it hopes to provide the simulation to as many team members as they can.
