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JUDITH AND MARVIN HERB FAMILY SIMULATION CENTER

ADVANCING PROFESSIONAL HEALTHCARE EDUCATION THROUGH SIMULATION TRAINING

Our state-of-the-art, high-tech facility boasts over 12,000 square feet of training and meeting space that is offered to our staff and also community members! Our facility is located at Downtown/Baker NCH (click the map below for directions). Our space includes 5 simulation rooms, 2 fully functional operating rooms, 3 large classrooms, 2 debriefing rooms, a procedural skills lab, a modern conference room, an Immersive Interactive room (mixed reality room), a green room for our actors to get ready in and a moulage room! We also have some of the most up to date, highest fidelity training equipment for the clinical staff to include high fidelity adult and child mannikins, a virtual dissection table, heart ultrasound equipment, body ultrasounding mannikins with pathologies, an endoscopy trainer, and multiple different task trainers. Our staff is expertly trained and internationally board certified in simulation education who can also assist with your training needs.

Simulation Training and Accomplishments

Simulation Training is experiential learning through active participation and subsequent reflection. Bridging the gap between knowledge and higher-level functioning.

What Can Simulation Accomplish

  • Task training/procedural skills
  • Scenario training
  • Communication skills
  • Quality improvement
  • Handoffs
  • Healthcare development
  • Competency assessment
  • Situational awareness
  • Patient safety
  • Teamwork/dynamics
  • Skill refinement
  • Improved patient satisfaction
  • Process improvement
  • Research and development

TOP 35

Simulation Centers in the United States

2023 Metrics

192

Collier County First Responders Trained

18,689

Learner Hours

4,320

Learners

658

Classes

Who We Partner With

  • Advanced Practice Registered Nurses and Physician Assistant Training
  • All Disciplines Within The Hospital Including Registered Nurses, Techs, Medical Assistants and Physicians
  • Collier County School Nurses and Staff
  • EMS, Fire, Paramedics, Flight Crew, Police
  • Executive Leadership Teams
  • Film Productions
  • GME Medicine Residents
  • Local Business Meeting/Event Space Or Team Building/Professional Development Training
  • Robotic Surgery Training
  • Universities and Schools: Naples and Immokalee
  • Universities, High Schools, Immokalee Foundation, Starrability Foundation, FSU SSTRIDE Program& Other Vocational Institutes.

Simulation Center Team Members

Dr Harrington

Douglas W. Harrington, D.O.

Medical Director

Hope Goodwin, RN, MSN, CEN, CHSE

Operations Manager

Julio Irizarry

Simulation Operations Specialist

Tesa-Ann Smith

Simulation Coordinator

Locations

Judith and Marvin Herb Family Simulation Center