Nursing Skills Sim Lab

A Simulation Lab to Level Up Your Skills

Alma’s Nursing Skills Sim Lab gives you a place to hone your clinical judgement skills in a safe environment before practicing them in real-life settings. By simulating situations that nurses face on the job, you’ll develop your nursing skills, teamwork, communication, critical thinking and clinical judgement skills.

Cutting-Edge Equipment

This cutting-edge lab is equipped with some of the most current technology in healthcare settings, including:

One mid-fidelity Gaumard manikin (which features a pulse, sounds for heart, lungs, and bowels, and blinking)
Two low-fidelity Gaumard manikins
An electronic blood-pressure arm
Manikin arms for IV placements
Patient monitor that displays vital signs

You’ll be able to start using the lab in your first year and throughout all your nursing classes.

A nursing student in a mask and gloves practices medical skills on a training manikin in a clinical setting.

a nursing student and instructor taking blood pressure and listen in their stethoscope as the student trains on a manikin in the Nursing Skills Sim Lab on the campus of Alma College.

Built For An Experience That's All Yours

Best of all, you can fit practice sessions around your schedule—no hassle, just pure learning. The Nursing Skills Sim Lab is located centrally on campus, in the Dow Science Center, and is open multiple times a week.

In addition to the on-campus nursing skills lab, Alma College has a relationship with MyMichigan Medical Center in Alma, where students use the hospital simulation laboratory to practice real-life patient scenarios in a positive learning environment.

A Student Perspective

Claire Williams `24

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I’m a very hands-on learner and I like to go to the hospital to practice skills. But it takes a lot of coordination to get that done. I’m really grateful for the work that has gone in to getting this prepared for us.

Claire Williams `24