A $2.8 million workforce development center featuring manikins possessing artificial intelligence — so human-like that one is even described as “sassy”— has opened at Beaufort Memorial Hospital. The state-of-the-art facility is breaking ground in bed-side training for nurses and other medical workers while putting a dent in a nursing shortage plaguing Lowcountry communities.
On Monday, as Beaufort Memorial officials showed off the new facility to the public, a manikin in a bed named Hal blinked his eyes. The 6,340-square foot enter, which also includes two 24-student classrooms, is located at BMH’s Medical and Administration Center, just across Ribaut Road from the hospital. He could be made to frown. At one point, he wiped his hand with his mouth. Once, he talked, saying, “I think my ankle is broken.”
Instructors can use the manikins to create various medical simulations that expose students to a variety of medical emergencies such as strokes, heart attacks and resuscitation, hospital officials say.
“It’s artificial intelligence so they can cry, they bleed, you can put them on a ventilator,” says Joy Solomon, the hospital’s director of education and workforce development. “You can do trauma cases. You can put in chest tubes.”
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On Monday, as Beaufort Memorial officials showed off the new facility to the public, a manikin in a bed named Hal blinked his eyes. The 6,340-square foot enter, which also includes two 24-student classrooms, is located at BMH’s Medical and Administration Center, just across Ribaut Road from the hospital. He could be made to frown. At one point, he wiped his hand with his mouth. Once, he talked, saying, “I think my ankle is broken.”
Instructors can use the manikins to create various medical simulations that expose students to a variety of medical emergencies such as strokes, heart attacks and resuscitation, hospital officials say.
“It’s artificial intelligence so they can cry, they bleed, you can put them on a ventilator,” says Joy Solomon, the hospital’s director of education and workforce development. “You can do trauma cases. You can put in chest tubes.”
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A $2.8 million workforce development center featuring manikins possessing artificial intelligence — so human-like that one is even described as "sassy"—
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