Nursing Skills and Simulation Lab
The Nursing Simulation Lab is an experiential learning space designed to provide nursing students with real-world healthcare experience. Academic Technologies designed the 3,300-square-foot lab in collaboration with nursing faculty to develop an active learning space that integrated technology with instructional needs. By learning in a realistic hospital environment, students graduate as clinically competent leaders in the nursing field.
Key Features:
- The lab includes a model ER suite with eight hospital beds, two private exam rooms, a studio apartment, and areas for birthing, pediatric, and geriatric simulations.
- Nursing instructors operate the recording technology and bedside equipment from two control rooms with easy-to-use touch panel interfaces.
- Strategically embedded cameras and microphones capture student interactions with the simulated patients, leading to more robust evaluative practices, which concretely identify areas of improvement.
- Nursing instructors operate sophisticated mannequin patients from a control room to engage and assess students.
- Live streaming increases access to the lab, as students watch their peers and participate from a distance.
- The system is capable of closed-circuit broadcast to a 100-seat lecture hall and a 50 seat classroom.
1 of 11The lab is equipped with two control rooms that allows instructors to operate bedside equipment.
2 of 11Instructors observe and assess nursing students behind behind one-way mirrors.
3 of 11The lab control rooms are equipped with easy-to-use 32" touch panel interfaces.
4 of 11Bedside video cameras are positioned to capture and record students as they interact with simulated patients.
5 of 11The mock emergency room is impressive because of its size and includes eight patient beds, each equipped with simulated mannequin patients.
6 of 11The lab is home to high fidelity patients ranging in age from infant to adult with names, personal histories, and lifelike features such as pulse, voice, blinking eyes, and blood.
7 of 11Bedside equipment displays a patient's heart rate and pulse. A patient's vitals are recorded and accessible through web streams. 
8 of 11Students experience a full range of health simulations in the lab, including facilitating a live birth.
9 of 11The lab's studio apartment provides nursing students with the opportunity to learn in-home patient care.
10 of 11Strategically placed cameras can record multiple scenarios in the lab and broadcast to a 100-seat lecture hall and a 50-seat classroom.
11 of 11Directional microphones placed above patient beds capture individual students’ responses to the simulated patients.
