Ozarks Healthcare Hosts High-Tech Training with MU’s Mobile Simulation Unit

Ozarks Healthcare welcomed the University of Missouri’s Shelden Simulation Center Mobile Training Unit to its campus this month, offering nurses from multiple departments a unique, hands-on learning opportunity through high-fidelity simulation.

The MU Simulation Bus is a grant-funded, mobile healthcare training center equipped with state-of-the-art simulation technology. It traveled to Ozarks Healthcare to provide critical skills training for nurses in the health system’s OB, Surgery, GI Lab, Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Cardiac Step-down Unit (CSU), Med/Surg, and Emergency Departments.

Training scenarios included mock codes and malignant hyperthermia emergencies — rare but life-threatening events requiring rapid, coordinated team response. Using realistic manikins and clinical settings, the mobile simulation unit allowed participants to practice decision-making and teamwork in a safe, controlled environment.

“Ongoing education and training are vital to providing excellent care, and this simulation experience takes that to a whole new level,” said Christen Weaver, Chief Nursing Officer at Ozarks Healthcare. “We’re thankful to the University of Missouri for helping bring this invaluable training to our nurses.”

The visit was part of the Mobile Sim program's mission to expand access to clinical education in rural areas across the state.

Learn more about Ozarks Healthcare at www.OzarksHealthcare.com.

Ozarks Healthcare is a not-for-profit health system that serves more than 160,000 residents across south-central Missouri and northern Arkansas. With its main campus residing in West Plains, Missouri, the health system offers a full spectrum of healthcare for all ages through its 114-bed hospital, behavioral health, therapies, pharmacies, rehabilitation, and home care services, along with specialty and family medicine clinics. Ozarks Healthcare has rural locations across an eight-county service area and is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations.

Ozarks Healthcare surgery staff participate in a malignant hypothermia simulation.

Ozarks Healthcare welcomed the University of Missouri’s Shelden Simulation Center Mobile Training Unit to its campus this month.