{"id":233555,"date":"2026-04-20T18:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/uni-unveils-completed-nursing-facility-with-simulation-technology\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T19:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:05:07","slug":"uni-unveils-completed-nursing-facility-with-simulation-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/uni-unveils-completed-nursing-facility-with-simulation-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"UNI unveils completed nursing facility with simulation technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/2026\/04\/20\/uni-unveils-completed-nursing-facility-with-simulation-technology\/\">UNI unveils completed nursing facility with simulation technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/2026\/04\/20\/uni-unveils-completed-nursing-facility-with-simulation-technology\/\">https:\/\/www.kcrg.com\/2026\/04\/20\/uni-unveils-completed-nursing-facility-with-simulation-technology\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-20 18:35:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.kcrg.com\">www.kcrg.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (KCRG) &#8211; The University of Northern Iowa has completed its nursing facility, giving students in the school\u2019s first nursing program access to simulation technology that mimics real hospital settings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The facility features patient simulators, including maternal and pediatric models, along with a nurses\u2019 station where students practice coordinating care. Professors control the simulators from a separate room, changing patient statistics while students work to correct them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Emily Frey, a UNI nursing student who transferred to the university in 2023, is part of the first group training in the program. Phase one of the facility opened during her first year. Phase three is now complete, bringing the project to a close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe have a maternal simulator. We have peds, out here we have a nurses\u2019 station. This phase allows us to do more than one patient simulation,\u201d Frey said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Students staff the nurses\u2019 station while others care for patients in their rooms. Faculty have emphasized treating the simulators as real patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThey\u2019ve really enforced treating them like real people. Our mannequins are not mannequins in simulation; they are real people. So we\u2019re interacting with them just right, they\u2019re responding to questions we have,\u201d Frey said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nancy Kertz, head of the nursing department, said the program aims to create safe, confident nurses who can transition quickly into their first jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re hoping that we can shorten up the orientation and onboarding that our students will need to participate in in the health care settings,\u201d Kertz said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Frey said the hands-on experiences have helped her in clinical settings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s really helped us prepare overall. We don\u2019t go in as nervous as, say, another nursing student that doesn\u2019t have quite the facility,\u201d Frey said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCRG. 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