About the Facility

The Simulation Center Facility

NSU provides skills laboratory and simulation equipment that makes learning relevant to current healthcare standards as well as future trends in the clinical setting. Nursing skills lab spaces are outfitted with equipment such as mobile medication dispensers, computers used for teaching, hospital beds, low-fidelity task trainers, mid-, and high-fidelity manikins, a shared classroom space used for theory courses and math reviews. The center holds a total of 38 hospital beds, 1 infant warmer, and 1 infant crib, 18 low-fidelity manikins, 6 mid-fidelity manikins, as well as 9 total high-fidelity manikins to be used in the simulation environment. Aside from these full-bodied manikins, the center houses 24 of each type of low-fidelity task trainer, to include trainers for necessary bedside nursing skills such as IV insertion, Foley catheter insertion, CVC dressing change, Tracheostomy care, wound care, and ostomy care. The high-fidelity simulation area uses KB Port AV equipment to facilitate and store data from high fidelity simulation sessions through the program. Working cameras are found throughout the center in the skills ward, testing rooms, simulation debrief rooms, and all simulation scenario rooms. Patient monitors are found at each bedside, totaling 39 (to include the infant monitor in the labor and delivery simulation area). The 3-bay skills ward houses 6 large monitors for delivery of educational content, including video capability to provide countertop demonstrations of various skills using task trainers.