UNF: Deerwood Site

UNF MedNexus and Florida State College at Jacksonville established an academic partnership located at the Deerwood campus located on the Southside of Jacksonville. The UNF MedNexus-FSCJ collaboration expands the education and development of high-quality, trained nurses and medical professionals to help fill the region’s needed health care talent pipeline.

Simulation Center

The state-of-the-art center has eight individual simulation rooms, each with its own adjoining full-size control room equipped with state-of-the-art technology, to allow for real and authentic healthcare training experiences. The simulation rooms consist of two home care apartment set-up rooms with full kitchen and bathroom, one OR/ER flex room, a skills lab and regular rooms to be used for trauma, birthing and pediatrics. Manikins are used in each room that are fully functioning and can replicate multiple different simulated experiences. The center also has a complete learning system space for recording and video monitoring, as well as counseling and debriefing rooms.

Group of students working in the Sim Lab

An instructor teaching three students in the sim lab

HCA Healthcare Center for Clinical Advancement

In partnership with HCA Florida Healthcare, a leading operator of healthcare facilities in Florida, the facility includes a fully interdisciplinary simulation center that delivers hands-on training to UNF Brooks College of Health nursing students and provides a pathway for HCA Healthcare employees to enroll in a UNF certificate program offered by the University’s Division of Continuing Education to utilize the simulation center.

Deerwood Site

Simulation Center

HCA Healthcare Center for Clinical Advancement

Staff

Amy Conner, MSN-Ed, RN | Clinical & Simulation Instructor