Since Monday, the FHSSS USB building on the address 26 U Výstaviště belongs to the event called the International Intensive Care Week that focuses on the instruction of specialised courses in the Nursing degree programme using simulation methods. 34 educators from 13 European countries and Turkey are taking part in the event directly and other foreign attendees are joining the event online. At the beginning, the guests were welcomed by the Director of the organising Institute of Nursing, Midwifery and Urgent Care, Prof. Valérie Tóthová, PhDr., Ph.D., Vice Dean for Science and Research of FHSS USB. 'I hope that the exchange of information and rich discussion will contribute to the development of nursing,' she said.
She introduced the main organisers of this event, which are doc. PhDr. Marie Trešlová, Ph.D., and the head of the simulation centre Mgr. František Dolák, Ph.D. He then introduced the guests to the birth of the Simulation Centre for Health-oriented Disciplines, which our faculty has been using since the autumn of 2020. He noted that it was created as the first such focused centre of its kind in the Czech Republic, so its creators were grateful for all the inspiration and experience from abroad – they collected it in Finland, Spain, the USA or Latvia. However, building and equipping the simulation centre is only the first task because the main task was, is and will be to ensure high-quality instruction of students. To do this, many variations of the situations that students have to deal with need to be programmed in advance – and it is the creation and use of these scenarios that are important parts of the International Intensive Week programme.
Then Prof. Dr. József Betlehem, Ph.D., from the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pécs, Hungary, took the floor. He introduced the participants to new developments in healthcare education, current trends in simulation-based learning and the concept of scenario-based learning. His presentation kicked off the professional programme, which will include a series of presentations, a seminar on introducing simulations into the curriculum and workshops in the simulation centre of the FHSS USB. On Monday, the participants had a tour of the centre and will work in the individual rooms in the following days.
The first comprehensive simulation centre for non-medical medical disciplines in the Czech Republic was opened by our faculty in September 2020. The building at 26 U Výstaviště Street houses hospital rooms, a delivery room, an intensive care unit and an authentic ambulance cabin in the basement. Everything is equipped with functional medical devices and the role of patients is played by sophisticated computer-controlled mannequins that mimic breathing, pulse or heart activity, etc. Instruments can be connected to them, simulators react to the procedures performed and the teacher can communicate with the student through them. Simulation teaching is facilitated by the control rooms and other spaces where teachers observe and evaluate the work of students, who are encouraged to be independent so that they go into practice as well prepared as possible.
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