Company Profile
Company Overview
The Gossman Center for Advanced Healthcare Simulation at Swedish is a medical simulation center designed to advance the skills of professionals in critical clinical situations. It is the first simulation center in the Pacific Northwest to focus on pediatric and perinatal simulation but also focuses on other areas such as OB-GYN and ED.
Our mission is to offer a multidisciplinary training facility that is dedicated to providing high quality, state-of the-art education using medical simulation to promote skill acquisition, clinical decision-making, teamwork, and patient safety in a collaborative environment.
Simulation education at the Gossman Center benefits professionals by:
• Improving teamwork, communication, and leadership skills
• Practicing and perfecting procedures
• Providing certification and renewals
• Practicing pediatric and perinatal code response
• Enhancing patient assessment and treatment skills
• Testing new medical devices
Company History
Since its inception in 1910 as a 24-bed hospital, Swedish Medical Center has grown into a 1,245-bed medical center comprised of five hospital campuses in the Seattle area - First Hill, Cherry Hill, Ballard, Edmonds and Issaquah.
In addition to providing general medical and surgical care, Swedish is a regional referral center for treatment in the areas of oncology, cardiac care, high-risk obstetrics, neurosciences, orthopedic surgery and organ transplant. Swedish also has an impressive array of specialty programs that includes sleep medicine, addiction recovery, pediatric services, pain management and home-care services.
Swedish Healthcare boasts more than 10,000 employees and a medical staff of more than 2,500 private-practice physicians, representing virtually every medical, surgical and diagnostic specialty and subspecialty.
Founded as a not-for-profit institution, Swedish continually reinvests in facilities and new equipment to provide our patients with the highest quality of care in state-of-the-art facilities.
The best place to work -
Swedish is not only committed to being the best place to receive care, but also the best place to work. We value and reward our employees with:
Generous compensation and benefits -
Swedish employees are among the highest-paid health-care workers in the Seattle area. And they enjoy a wide range of benefits that are effective immediately upon employment, including relocation expenses (if eligible), a choice of health-care insurance benefits, a 401(k) retirement plan, a variety of paid commuting plans and the possibility of flexible work hours and shifts.
Individualized orientation -
Swedish provides an orientation that is tailored to meet the needs of the individual and his or her department or unit. Nurses receive a flexible orientation that combines theory and clinical experience under the guidance of a preceptor.
Continuing education -
Swedish provides educational incentives that include continuing education allowances, tuition reimbursement and ongoing in-service training. Nurses can start their careers at Swedish while they are students. Advanced training opportunities in nursing include consortium training for the operating room, intensive care, telemetry and women’s health.
Supportive work environment -
In the clinical areas, Swedish provides the necessary resources to allow for a manageable patient-to-nurse ratio. As part of Swedish’s commitment to provide a supportive environment, nurse managers participate in the delivery of patient care. Departments that support patient-care services include pathology, medical imaging, laboratory medicine, nuclear medicine, radiation therapy and pulmonary therapy.
Benefits
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