Nursing Student Learning and Simulation Center
New Nursing Student Learning and Simulation Center
Within this hospital-like setting students are given hands-on experience with low-fidelity
and high-fidelity simulations. Laboratory instruction and activities give students
the knowledge and nursing skills to prepare them for on-site clinical learning on
live patients.
State of the Art
- Twenty-one hospital beds
- Three nursing skills labs
- High-fidelity simulation rooms featuring adult, child and infant manikins
- Outpatient exam room
- State-of-the-art control room
- Three debriefing rooms
Basic Skills Labs A & B and the Flex Skills Lab
These low-fidelity simulation labs give students hands-on learning of practical nursing skills as they learn such fundamentals as performing assessments, creating and maintaining sterile fields, placing IV and urinary catheters with realistic simulated fluid, administering medications; all the skills required for becoming a knowledgeable, competent, caring nurse.
High-Fidelity Simulation Rooms
As students progress in the programs their learning is enhanced with sophisticated, computerized manikins replicating realistic clinical experiences in a low stakes’ environment. In the control room, sim operators facilitate simulation as they control manikins’ breathing, heart rates, blood pressure, lung and bowel sounds, verbal communications, and per instructors’ instructions can modify the situation during simulations. Students obtain first-hand experience with everything from initial assessments to labor and delivery to cardiac arrests, creating an intensive and responsive learning environment.
Debriefing Learning Rooms
State-of-the-art debriefing rooms give students focused learning experiences with pre-briefings of simulation cases. Through live-streams they observe their peers participating in the high-fidelity simulations which they later discuss in debriefings with the aid of recorded simulations.
