Blurring the lines between where classrooms begin and end and promoting interdisciplinary interaction, the University of California Davis established Betty Irene Moore Hall as the education facility for the School of Nursing. It features medical simulation technology to provide dynamic learning environments and supports the university’s mission to reimagine education and provide innovative spaces to prepare future health professionals.
The three-story facility provides the opportunity for inpatient skills simulation with an eight-bed simulation lab and a task training lab. Other hands-on spaces include 15 mock exam rooms with accompanying debrief rooms, a high-fidelity simulation lab, and the Activities of Daily Living lab, each with an adjacent monitoring room. Simulation spaces include multiple cameras and microphones that permit recording of student training activities.
Four Active Learning Studios with seating for 175, 126, 60, and 30 students include projection with speech and sound reinforcement systems. Each studio supports small group collaboration, lecture capture, and distance learning. Collaboration stations are equipped with a flat panel display, microphone, tabletop power, and connectivity for sharing portable devices. These studios emphasize group learning and teamwork, create spaces for collaboration across disciplines, and encourage active, student-centered instruction.
Collaborative, flexible learning commons areas throughout the building for private, small group study and larger collaboration groups foster a continual exchange between classroom and clinical learning. The spaces feature multiple displays with adjacent connectivity. Each display shows digital content relevant to the School of Nursing when not in use by students, faculty, and staff members.
