Gifts in Action

Methodist Service League Helps Provide Outstanding Nursing Education

What is the best way to prepare today's nurses for the 21st century?  Hands-on experience.

Students learn essential skills hands-on at the Methodist College of Nursing Learning Resource Center.  Here nursing students practice injections, inserting intravenous lines, administering CPR, and many more skills on computerized lifelike manikins before applying them with actual patients.

The learning center is the only facility of its type in the states and is the result of a $300,000 donation from the Methodist Medical Center Service League to commemorate Elizabeth Glos.

"Elizabeth Glos was a member of the Methodist Service League for many years and chose to continue her support of Methodist with a generous bequest," said Marsha Swardenski, Executive Director of the Methodist Medical Center Foundation.  "The Service League members wanted this gift to be a special tribute to Mrs. Glos.  The Learning Resource Center which now bears her name is a lasting legacy of her dedication to the Methodist mission."

The learning center's "patients" are state-of-the-art computerized manikins.  These lifelike models can simulate a wide range of clinical situations, including illness, injuries-even birth!  And students practice skills with manikins of all ages and ethnic groups.

Not only are the "patients" lifelike, but the facility also provides realistic settings in which to learn.  The learning center includes an emergency room, and intensive care room, a nurses' station with a computerized medication distribution system, and a maternal/child/pediatrics room.  These units are fully equipped to simulate actual patient care rooms.