The Clinical Skills room is a simulated Ward lab (room LH341) that offers a realistic, acute clinical environment where students can safely practice assessment, clinical reasoning skills, treatment and management techniques. It is equipped with hospital beds, clinical equipment and hyper-real mannequins to fully immerse the learner in the clinical environment.
Clinical skills equipment can also be transferred to other areas of the campus to ensure the students have ample opportunities to practice these skills, making the most of the learning environments to offer students a good quality and safe experience. The Clinical Skills simulation lab is used across the programmes to enhance problem-solving skills while enabling the students to practice and develop their clinical skills in a safe and supportive manner. The teaching ranges from fully simulated patient sessions to specific techniques and skills training.
Learners are also able to access a variety of other areas at our Waterside campus for learning; including: a kitchen, bedroom and bathroom simulation areas. These areas are used to reflect the real-world environments that, for example, physiotherapists and occupational therapists work in, in order to give the students the opportunity to experience these environments before their clinical placements.
Close up of a heart monitor in the Simulation Lab at the University of Northampton.
Photo of VR nursing demonstration at the University of Northampton, where an academic is demonstrating a simulation with the VR. A television screen with animated demo is what the student next to them can see, who is wearing the VR headset over their eyes. In the foreground are two students on their laptop, only the back of their head can be seen.
Photo showing a VR demo with student nurses. The student nurse is wearing a VR headset and behind them is a big television screen, showing an animated patient simulation, which the student is using to practice.
Photo depicting an observation of a student nurse with a patient at the University of Northampton in the Simulation Lab. The Student nurse showing a patient a document about how to make a sandwich with patient is holding two slice of bread.
Photo depicting a student nurse at the University of Northampton, showing papers to a patient in a ward bed, during a simulation. The academic is watching over.
Photo of 2manikins in the Simulation Lab at the University of Northampton.
Photo of 4 Manikins in the Simulation Lab at the University of Northampton, each on a ward bed with wires connected to them. Two have oxygen masks on their faces. There are digital clocks above the beds.
Photo of the Simulation Lab ward at the University of Northampton, showing two patient manikins in bed, with curtains, wires, bedside tables, and movable beds. There is a digital clock above each bed.
Photo of Two child manikins next to each other in a crib ward bed, in the Simulation Lab at the University of Northampton
