What we try to do in the Sim Lab is replicate what the staff member is going to see when they're actually in practice in the hospital. And that replication goes right down to the equipment has to match. We don't want substitutes for what they might see. So we try to replicate the environment, but allow them to be in a safe environment where they can make mistakes and learn without any kind of patient harm.
When you look at other industries that have adopted simulation such as aviation and the military, this is really the cornerstone of how you get learning at the point of care. When they're in simulation, classroom, they can interact with each other, they can interact with the instructor, and they can ask those questions of, Am I doing this correctly? And what we find is when they face that situation over in the hospital, they're much more confident in how they're gonna respond. Without the foundation, we wouldn't be here. The organization built us the infrastructure when the space became available, but until the foundation was able to secure support for it, it wasn't ready to be used. And I think the beauty of it is as donors came and wanted to see the lab, they're just amazed that we have equipment that can do this.
Without our donors that have been so generous over the last couple of years, you know, we wouldn't be where we are. As we watched each piece of critical equipment come in, it was just one more thing we could do. So everything you see in these rooms, there's a donor behind each of those items, no matter how small or how large it is. And we just slowly build, and we're still building thanks to continuing support from the foundation.
