Clinical Simulation Center

This 6-bed Clinical Skills Lab allows Nursing students learn and practice assessment and clinical skills in a controlled, safe space. This space is designed to simulate the experience students will have outside the classroom, whether that be in a hospital setting, clinic, primary care office, or long-term care facility.

The Clinical Skills Lab comes equipped with state-of-the-art medical equipment and mannequins of a diverse range of ages, genders, and skin tones. After simulation exercises, students can break off into one of the adjoining debriefing rooms to regroup with their peers and discuss what they learned.

There are two High-Fidelity Simulation Suites in the CSC. These suites are equipped with sophisticated manikins that are enhanced to breath, talk, blink and cough. These allow students to practice more complex simulations. Each suite has a conjoining debriefing and observation room where students and faculty engage in meaningful discussion optimizing learning while in a small, personal class size. Students have the ability to use real, functional medical equipment as they care for patients in simulation scenarios.

The CSC’s Virtual Reality (VR) equipment enhances the realistic and functional supplies and equipment throughout the center. Students will use VR to participate in a variety of clinical scenarios in different environments, including high-risk situations that may be difficult to replicate in the lab. Applying their knowledge in “real” situations while engaging all their senses will help to decrease errors in when students are practicing in actual healthcare settings.

Another piece of equipment available to Nursing students is the Anatomage Table. Cabrini’s Anatomage Table gives Nursing students the ability to use a technologically advanced anatomy visualization system during their Anatomy & Physiology and Pathophysiology & Pharmacology courses. Beyond seeing images or diagrams in textbooks, the table simulates an operating table, allowing students and faculty to examine a fully segmented, highly detailed, digital human anatomy, as if it were an actual cadaver, under a touch screen. Students can turn, adjust, and magnify the body by moving their fingers over the panel to delve further into the structures and systems they want to inspect and dissect. They can also travel laparoscopically through the heart vessels, digestive system, reproductive system, and other interconnected tissues and structures.