Clinical Simulation Centre

Our Clinical Simulation Centre has been purpose-built with this in mind. Students learn beyond the classroom in simulated environments before undertaking supervised placements.

Ambulance Simulator

Two students completing an examination at the clinical simulation centre

Assessment Centre

Community Flat

Nursing lecturer with students in a ward setting.

Emergency Department

A Midwifery student is feeling the belly of a pregnant dummy, while being supervised.

Midwifery Suite

Operating Department Practice students practising technical skills.

Multipurpose Suite

An academic is supervising a nursing student listening to the heart of a dummy patient.

Nursing Bays

Three child nursing students examining a patient simulator.

Paediatric Unit

A group of Midwifery students are listening to a talk around a fake babies incubator.

Special Care Baby Unit

Whatever a student’s chosen area of study, they will be exposed to a range of equipment that maybe used in clinical practice so that they are competent in using it and interpreting certain data from such equipment that will inform their ability to delivery first-class patient care.

WHY HEALTHCARE AT USW?

Three health students practicing CPR on a mannequin in the clinical simulation centre

Bring study to life

The Centre is fully equipped with a range of sophisticated manikins that can replicate the body’s reactions to illness, care, and treatment - with student’s experiencing first-hand physiological changes and patient responses including altered pulses and blood pressures, breathing and heart conditions.

A group of nursing students stood in a line taking instructions from a nursing lecturer in the clinical simulation centre

Develop your technical and clinical skills

Students practice different skills, technical and non-technical. Where emphasise on non-technical skills include specific professional proficiencies, values, interpersonal relationships, teamworking and interprofessional delivery.

Your future is in your hands

Hands-on learning is a vitally important aspect of study at the University and so is reflection. When using simulation, the Centre has the facility to record all student/patient interactions to review and replay scenarios. This allows for reflection on skills and performance and aids students to address any issues with the support of clinical skills trainers and tutors.

Student nurses taking care of mannequin patients in the clinical simulation centre.

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A fully immersive environment

Healthcare can occur in a range of settings with different care needs presented by each patient, our simulation centre mimics scenarios that span the patient journey from one setting to another, and between professional groups.

Whether this be pre-hospital, through primary care at a GP Practice, in the community at a patient’s own home, or in secondary care at hospital, each setting is recreated on-campus for students - providing a fully immersive environment that emulates real-life practice.

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