my name is Brianna Hurley.

I am a speech language pathologist, here at Syracuse University.

I am the simulation facilitato in our adult medical simulation So the mission of the simulation lab was really to provide hands on experience to connect theory, to practice.

from speech.

Hi.

I'm just here today because I heard that you have some weakness on your left side.

So I wanted to look at how your mouth and tongue are working all those things.

Because that weakness may be translated to there.

we really had to do some research and look at the data to determine what our students needed and what the learning gaps were in their training.

Modern medicine really kin of requires that we are creating clinicians who have the skills and the knowledge to function in these fast paced, high energy environments where there's a lot going on that training can start now on campus befor we send them off for external.

It's been a really good experience to learn about the acute car setting in a safe environment.

we were really pushed to become more independen and complete longer simulations And even though it was definitely scary at first, I think that's why I've see so much growth in my confidence give you some different foods.

I'm going to give you water.

I'm going to get more info about your chewing and swallowing.

Okay.

Communication is huge.

they need to take what they learned in class about normal anatomy and physiology and then translate it into patient friendly language.

I've trained the standardized patients.

If you don't understand what they explained to you, please let them know that you didn't understand.

So the students get that feedback that they didn't have it quite right in their translation to the patient.

Those communication breakdowns have a huge impact.

Your patient needs to make informed decisions about their health care, And if they aren't on the same page, if they're not understanding your recommendations your rationale, your reasoning, those things are going to fall through.

And that's when mistakes are made.

That's when patient might make decisions that aren't fully informed with the risks and benefits.

So that communication is really important.

So this is our simulation lab space.

When we were designing it, we worked really hard to make it as high fidelity as possible.

Meaning it should look, feel, sound as close to a hospital room as we can make it in this environment.

we have a fully functionin hospital bed, we have a patient bedside chair so students can work on transferring their patient from the bed to the chair This is called a head wall and we're able to simulate suctioning.

We're able to simulate oxygen delivery.

We have a simulated call bell.

So all of the things that they would see in a hospital room, they're able to see here in this environment.

We have a vitals monitor up here where we can run simulated vital signs that I can control as a facilitator remotely so their patient can improve or decline as they're working with them during our clinical swallow evaluation simulation.

At least in my simulation, her vitals tanked and the beeping like got faster and faster.

And that's just not something you know you're going to get experience with unless you're working with a real client out in the community.

I just feel like here I was able to practice it without a patient, which made me feel even better because like, if I messed up, then it's oka because I'm not harming somebody I think it was really grea to practice it with my professor and like the actress rather than having a real client there at that moment.

out straight.

Try not to let me push it.

Okay.

Good.

Other side.

Stick your tongue out straight.

Try not to let me push it.

Okay.

Great.

Okay.

I messed up a few times in simulation lab.

I never felt bad about myself.

It's a learning opportunity and it's a learning moment.

It's important to make those mistakes, if you do make a mistake, you know, you don't kno what you don't know until you, you know, actually do it.

So it was nice to, you know, feel like, okay, like maybe I didn't say that exactly how I wanted to that time.

Or maybe my directions were as patient friendly, but that six in the back of your mind and you know that moving forward.

Hey, that's something I want to work on.

But I wouldn't have necessarily figured that out without having this, like, safe experience in simulation.

also just having our supervisor right there knowing that, hey, I can try something and I can trust my clinical judgment knowing that I have, you know, a safe space.

I have my supervisor here to jump in and give me feedback, but it also strengthens that confidence that we want to build in ourselve before we go out in the field.

And we have those difficult decisions to make simulation is newer to CSC or Communication Sciences and disorders.

It's been established i medicine and nursing for a lot it's been really well established as an incredibly functiona and powerful tool for training.

So I think it's important that we continue this because it's really grounde in learning theory and pedagogy that this is beneficial to our students.

So I love that it's now offered here.