The Seton Family of Hospitals and area education leaders have created an innovative approach to address the current and growing shortage of nurses, physicians and other skilled clinical personnel in Central Texas.
The Clinical Education Center at Brackenridge is located in the former medical office building and vacated Children’s Hospital of Austin. The unique interdisciplinary center is intended to preserve the health care safety net, with education programs focused on community health issues such as patient safety, mental health and diabetes.
The Center will be accessible to students and graduate trainees in medicine and nursing. Educational opportunities in public health, bioengineering, informatics, social work, pharmacy, law, psychology, public policy, may also be available.
The Center features:
- Flexible instructional spaces equipped with multimedia technology.
- Simulation labs to support interdisciplinary team training.
- Medium to high-fidelity interactive mannequins that provide learners with a safe error forgiving environment to practice interdisciplinary team approaches to patient care.
- Debriefing rooms to support the simulation labs.
- Skills Labs for learners to practice nursing and medical skills in a real life hospital setting.
- Computer lab and learning resource area
The Goal:
- Expand medical education;
- Establish a state of the art Simulation Center;
- Improve patient outcomes through collaborative education among all health care professionals using the facility; and
- Create a unique education environment and opportunity for other allied health professionals
- Increase enrollment in nursing programs and graduation of nurses;
- Implement creative faculty models to support increased enrollment in nursing programs;
- Implement long term solutions to address nursing faculty shortage;
Leaders with Seton, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Austin Community College and Concordia University believe that the CEC will be able to take advantage of Central Texas’ diverse and nationally recognized academic assets, a growing and financially secure hospital network and an experienced and successful entrepreneurial and venture capital community.
Seton is proud to have four hospitals – the only hospitals in Central Texas - that have earned the