Clinical Performance Lab

The Clinical Performance Lab is a highly utilized simulation hub

The Clinical Performance Lab provides students with the opportunity to translate theoretical knowledge into a safe clinical experience using realistic patient scenarios. High-fidelity manikins used in the laboratory are capable of numerous physiological states and responses, giving the student the most “real-life” experience as possible. 

Additionally, each student in the undergraduate program will have an opportunity in the high-fidelity simulation suites to have trained actors as embedded family members. The purpose is to promote communication, caring and confidence in health care delivery. For the graduate program each student in the nurse practitioner and midwifery tracks of the Doctor of Nursing Practice program are provided with standardized patient opportunities in the simulated six-room outpatient clinic, pairing them with trained actors that give students confidence and real human feedback about the development of their advanced practice assessment and diagnostic skills. With a dedicated simulation coordinator on staff to conduct simulations, our nursing instructors are able to focus more closely on student learning outcomes.  

In addition to high-fidelity simulation areas, the Clinical Performance Lab houses an acute care simulated area, centrally located in the Clinical Performance Lab and is designed for realistic, clinical practice. This 24-bed laboratory affords students the opportunity for extensive skill learning and practice time.