Clinical Skills Simulation Lab
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.
![VR nursing demonstration, where an academic is standing in front of the television screen with animated simulation while the student next to them 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.](https://www.northampton.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/cache/2023/05/tutor-in-simulation-lab/874371547.jpg)
![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.](https://www.northampton.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/cache/2023/05/student-with-vr-simulation-lab/1324175773.jpg)
![Student nurse showing a patient a document about how to make a sandwich, during a simulation. The patient is holding two slice of bread, with beans and butter on the kitchen side. The academic is in the background, observing.](https://www.northampton.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/cache/2023/05/student-with-patient-simulation-lab/3504035837.jpg)
![Student nurse showing papers to a patient in a ward bed, during a simulation. The academic is watching over.](https://www.northampton.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/cache/2023/05/student-with-patient-in-ward-simulation-lab/119094504.jpg)
![4 Manikins in the Simulation Lab, each on a ward bed with wires connected to them. Two have oxygen masks on their faces. There are digital clocks above the beds.](https://www.northampton.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/cache/2023/05/simulation-lab-ward-adult-child/1228166068.jpg)