The Nursing Skills Lab is a learning lab just for nursing students. You will spend time in the lab each quarter, building your skill set and testing your knowledge.
During your first year, you will learn assessment skills and nursing procedures with a combination of lecture and hands on demonstrations. Then, return to the lab for the second year to build on your skills and competencies and focus on maternal, pediatric and infant nursing care. In the final quarter of the Nursing program you will use the simulation setting to demonstrate critical thinking skills.

The skills training lab is mock-up hospital space with a nurses’ station, fully equipped crash cart, medication cart, EKG machine and other clinical equipment. This gives you a realistic, but safe, learning environment for nursing care.

You’ll practice and be evaluated on a variety of skills in the lab, including assessment and psychomotor skills. You will get to use low and mid-fidelity adult, pediatric and infant manikins to practice and demonstrate typical nursing procedures. Mid-fidelity manikins are equipped with lung, heart and bowel sounds, and the ability to verbalize responses and demonstrate variations in vital signs. In addition, as part of the learning experience, students can use a variety of skills trainers, such as IV arms, wound care manikins and central line demonstrators.