Facilities

The Institute has excellent facilities to support the development of academic knowledge alongside relevant professional skills acquisition. Highlights include: simulation suites equipped with contemporary technical equipment including programmable androids; a home environment, skills and clinic rooms; dedicated computer labs and various monitoring laboratories, including eye-tracking equipment.

Clinical skills rooms

The University’s high specification clinical skills laboratories simulate ‘real life’ situations for students to experience, develop and learn practical skills before going out to practice placements. The remote control centre enables lecturers to programme and control the manikins to simulate illness, effects of nursing interventions and treatments. The video recording equipment provides opportunities for the students to review and reflect on their abilities and to share these with other students.  

Sim Man

Sim Man is a state-of-the-art training device programmed with over 2,500 abnormal heart rhythms, and can suffer anything from a slight wheezing problem to asthma attacks, profuse bleeding and cardiac arrest. He is linked up to a monitor and software, which create thousands of scenarios and outcomes ideal for testing decision-making skills.Sim Man is the next best thing to the students being out within the clinical areas with real patients. He allows you to gain valuable experience, while giving lecturers an excellent opportunity to assess how you are getting on.