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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.