No./Title: SIM 111 – Sim CHIPS Access	Resp. Office: SIMULATION Approval Body: CASA	Effective Date: 01/01/2019
Category: Academic	Last Review: 03/02/2021	Next Review: 03/02/2024
Contact: Executive Director CHIPS	🕿 901.448.9746	🖂 simulate@uthsc.edu
Related Policies:	SIM105- Sim Faculty-Facilitator Responsibilities SIM106 – Remediation, Makeup, and Practice Policy SIM xxx – Meetings SIM110 – Tours

DEFINITIONS

1. Participants: anyone involved in or observers of simulation activity (e.g., students, learners, educators, instructors, faculty, staff, or observers)
2. Learner: Student, resident, or healthcare professional engaged in a simulation-based educational or assessment activity.
3. Simulation Faculty Facilitator: Any person meeting minimum simulation competencies, as determined by the Director of Education, who is associated with the delivery and planning of the simulation activity

POLICY

1. The Center for Healthcare Improvement and Patient Simulation (CHIPS) regulates access to physical spaces in order to promote a safe, secure, and healthy environment for all simulation participants.

PROCEDURE

1. CHIPS maintains business hours of Monday 9am-5pm and Tuesday-Friday 8am-5pm.
2. UTHSC students, faculty and staff are granted badge access to CHIPS entry doors during normal business hours.
3. Badge access to spaces inside CHIPS must be approved by the Executive Director.
4. Anyone accessing CHIPS that is not a UTHSC student, faculty, or staff must sign in and out at the main entrance, 26 S Dunlap Street.
5. All learners or participants in CHIPS must be supervised by a Simulation Faculty Facilitator, unless granted special permission by the Executive Director.
6. Any access CHIPS outside normal business hours must be approved by the Executive Director.
7. Access to CHIPS is limited to simulation participants and individuals that have scheduled meetings or other business with CHIPS staff.
8. Learners, students and other participants should not loiter in or use CHIPS space for unapproved purposes.
9. Individuals or groups wishing to tour CHIPS should submit a tour request online.
10. Individuals or groups that would like to use CHIPS for meetings or other non-simulation events should submit a meeting request online.
11. Individuals or groups wishing to utilize CHIPS for practice should complete a request for independent practice online.

APPENDICES

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APPROVAL HISTORY

Effective: January 2019

Reviewed: March 2, 2021, CASA

Approved: March 6, 2021, Chief Academic Officer