Reflecting the Reality of Healthcare
Experience what it’s like to be a working nurse firsthand in our award-winning 模拟中心. At Ashland University’s College of Nursing and 健康科学, we believe that experiential learning shapes the minds and futures of our students. Through simulation, we can expand their knowledge by teaching the basics of nursing care, 护理技能, delegation of patient care to appropriate care providers and prioritization of patient care.
What is the 模拟中心?
The 模拟中心, 是一种创新, award-wining instructional program and learning center that provides challenging and immersive simulation training for nursing, physician assistant and health science students. Simulators interact with students in realistic clinical settings to complement clinical practice.
The multidisciplinary Simulation Lab offers the following features:
- 32 HillRom® beds and headwall units that mimic a fully-functional hospital unit
- Simulators, or manikins, programmed to give realistic patient responses and outcomes
- Exam and treatment rooms using the same equipment found in medical practice
模拟中心 Labs
The 模拟中心 consists of a variety of labs to expand the experience of each student, no matter their intended specialty.
Health Foundations Lab
You will begin your experience at the Health Foundations Lab and continue throughout the program. This lab houses up to eight8 beds that are potentially occupied with patients (manikins) to learn proper patient care. These are low-fidelity manikins, which will allow you to hear basic sounds from the heart, 肺和肠.
成人健康实验室
Your journey will advance to taking a more active role within the simulation environment as you begin interacting with mid- and high-fidelity manikins.
You will also dive deeper into medication dispensing and learn the difference between charge items vs. non-charge物品.
Complex Health Lab
Throughout your time at the College of Nursing and 健康科学, you will continuously fine-tune your skills and abilities. Ashland’s caring faculty will provide you with the proper training to handle a multitude of tasks professionally and confidently. You will learn how to 说话 with patients about their health concerns. Your experience will take you from caring for one to four beds at a time.
OB实验室
In the OB实验室, you will learn about delivering babies and how to care for the mother and the baby.
儿科实验室
In the 儿科实验室, you will practice handling babies and caring for young children, including administering medicine.
You can also practice the skill of educating parents and guardians.
社区 Health Lab
The 社区 Health Lab offers a simulated 首页 environment that allows nursing students to practice their community health skills in a life-like scenario.
Intensive Care/Advanced Care Lab
Your training will take you to the Intensive Care and Advanced Care Labs.
In the Intensive Care Lab, you will gain hands-on experience caring for patients with more specialized needs, this time without instructors or professors.
Here you will encounter patients with a variety of concerns, such as memory loss, blood complications, vehicular accident trauma and end-of-life distress.
检查 Rooms
Nursing students use exam and treatment rooms similar to those found in doctors’ offices to simulate treatment of patients with the same equipment used in actual medical practice.
