High-functioning simulation labs are shaping the healthcare pipeline by bridging the gap between classroom learning and real-world practice. This chat will explore how purposeful design, equipment planning, and collaboration create environments that accelerate competency and confidence in future clinicians. Attendees will gain insights into how sim labs advance education and training and strengthen recruitment, retention, and workforce resilience.
RN, MBA
Manager of Clinical Planning and Design
University of Colorado Health
Kaycee Shiskowsky is the Manager of Clinical Planning and Design at UCHealth. She has over 25 years of varied hospital nursing experience, including 9 years in various acute care units: Oncology, Cardiac, Medicine, Transplant, and Pulmonary, as well as unit leadership for 9 years and the last 7 years in the design and construction field. Within this role, she utilizes her clinical awareness and operational knowledge to direct design decisions that support the flow and functionality of new and renovated health care spaces. Ms Shiskowsky has and is supporting multiple new hospital towers, medical office buildings, and renovated clinical spaces. As a part of a growing organization, she is also on the path to create design templates or standards to be duplicated across the healthcare system to make the process of design less cumbersome to clinical leaders.
Ms Shiskowsky, in addition to her Bachelor's in nursing, has an MBA, a nurse executive, and a nurse coach board certification from ANCC. She is also on the Board of Directors at Women in Healthcare Denver and has her Evidence-Based Design Certification in an effort to continue to add to the research body of knowledge in the field of health care design.
Director of Facility Activation
University of Colorado Health