Creativity and innovation as drivers at the simulated Hospital of the Universidad de La Sabana

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the Universidad de La Sabana in the light of the creativity and innovation, taking its Simulated Hospital (SH) as a case study. The SH was created in 1998 as a “traditional clinical simulation laboratory” for medical and nursing students, and in 2018, it was transformed into a creative and innovative space equipped with high technology (mannequins and audiovisual equipment), where teachers, staff and support students designed protocols for re-creating medical situations, creating new makeup effects, training simulated / standardized patients (SP), creating and repairing tools and pieces of medical equipment. In this space, students from health and other programs interact and live real hospital experiences guided by active learning. Currently, the SH has about of 695 m2 (including the labs), where around of 120 students can train simultaneously per hour. They can practice patient care, labors, surgeries, cardiac resuscitation, and neurorehabilitation, among other procedures, while professors monitor these activities.