Salve Regina partners with PCI to provide nursing students training opportunities

SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY has partnered with PC Institute for Medical Education LLC to give its nursing students and faculty learning and training opportunities. / COURTESY SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY

NEWPORT – Salve Regina University has partnered with PC Institute for Medical Education LLC to give its nursing students and faculty learning and training opportunities through advanced medical simulations.

Through the partnership, students enrolled in Salve Regina’s master’s in nursing with a family nurse practitioner concentration and in its postgraduate family nurse practitioner certificate program will have access to PCI’s 20,000-square-foot facility in Fall River, which features 24 bio-skills stations, lab spaces, simulation suites, meeting rooms and audiovisual technologies.

Students will experience medical simulations that mimic what health care professionals encounter daily in the field, an opportunity that will help them “achieve competencies and the skills needed to provide ethical patient care across the lifespan,” said Dr. Sharon Stager, Salve’s graduate nursing program director.

This is PCI’s first collaboration with a university.

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“The relationship between Salve Regina University’s nursing program and PCI brings together two of the area’s leaders in health care education,” said Dr. Charles Pozner, chief medical officer and director of simulation for Fall River-based PCI, New England’s largest multiuse medical training facility. “Salve Regina will leverage PCI’s modern simulation-based technologies and our world-class simulation to enhance their nursing education.”

Beginning in 2023, Salve Regina’s nursing program will conduct up to four of its nursing residencies at PCI annually.

“In a rapidly changing health care environment, the teaching of clinicians has become more dependent on simulation-based activities,” Pozner said. “This safe, reproducible and active learning environment supports modern educational techniques. The fidelity of the environment results in participants suspending the disbelief that they are in a simulated environment, and they begin to function as if caring for actual patients.”

Claudia Chiappa is a PBN staff writer. You may contact her at Chiappa@PBN.com.

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