College: The Goldfarb School of Nursing at Barnes-Jewish College, through excellent nursing education, develops exceptional professional nurses who are committed to the compassionate delivery of evidence-based practice, engaged in lifelong learning and service to others.

Simulation Lab: Improve patient safety and quality of care through use of clinical simulation in education and research.   We seek to provide our students an exceptional educational experience in a dynamic and diverse learning environment.

Pre-Licensure Programs: 388 total

Upper Division: 243

Accelerated: 145

Post-Licensure Programs: 155

• Provide experiences students are unlikely to have in the live clinical environment
• Provide an opportunity for students to refine skills so they will have increased self-efficacy prior to clinical experience
• Provide an arena where mistakes can occur in a safe, learning environment, without adverse effects to the patient
• Standardization of simulation experiences (pre-programmed scenarios provide standardized learning opportunity)

Haas, B. & Tobnick, C. (2008, August).  Educating our Future Nurses through Simulation: our history, best practices and looking to the future. Symposium conducted at the Simulation Users Network Conference, Denver, Colorado.

Haas, B & Rea, G. (2008, October) NLN Technology Pre-Conference: Basic Simulation Workshop. Pre-Conference workshop conducted at the NLN Technology Conference, St. Louis, Missouri.

Rea, G., Haas, B., Koch, C. Opening a state-of-the-art clinical simulation institute: stages of development, planning, and curriculum integration. Nursing Education Perspectives.  Submitted for Review: Sept 2008.

2008-2011: Laerdal Center of Educational Excellence

• Assessing level of adoption of simulation learning into nursing curriculum and by nursing faculty
• Evaluating validity and reliability of simulation learning; does learning in the simulated environment carry over to the clinical environment?