Clinical Simulation Labs
Health Professions Clinical Simulation & Learning Labs
When it comes to training the best future health care professionals, who are prepared to handle anything they might face in their profession – Mercy University has an invaluable tool – our Health Professions Clinical Simulation and Learning Labs. The Westchester 12,000 square-foot space includes specialized labs designed to simulate different health care settings used by different disciplines.
Explore Our Labs
The labs are inter-professional and will be used by many programs in the School of Health and Natural Sciences. Video capture provides opportunities to review students’ performance with them to provide feedback for improvement in skills and interactions.
Simulation and lab hours are scheduled in alignment with courses. Students are informed at the start of each semester of these hours.
Interprofessional Education
The Health Professions Clinical Simulation and Learning Labs provide opportunities to bring together students from various health professions for interdisciplinary hands-on learning experiences in settings that reflect in-patient, clinic, and home settings. The students can work as a team while practicing patient assessment, critical thinking, communication, and interventions based on specific patient scenarios.
Tour the 3rd floor clinical simulation labs
This space includes a Clinical Skills and Assessment Lab, movement lab and home health labs, frequently used by students and faculty in our nursing occupational therapy, occupational therapy assistant, and physical therapy programs.
Westchester Labs
Treat our highly interactive mannequins using real hospital equipment. Mannequins exhibit human physiologic functions such as blood pressure, reactive pupils, working tear ducts and heart and lung sounds. Students will learn to perform many common procedures including: starting an IV, giving medications, treating wounds and performing surgical procedures and more. Using radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology, students can simulate administering medicine and treatment to the mannequin, which the mannequins react to in real-time.
Students are able to develop their skills including: assessment of range of motion, strength, balance, and coordination; determining the patient’s ability to transfer and use assistive devices like wheelchairs, walkers and crutches; and training individuals in the successful use of orthoses and prostheses. Additionally students refine their manual skills as they mobilize and manipulate joints and soft tissue under the supervision of faculty.
Students will be able to learn and problem solve how to assist individuals with illnesses and medical conditions adapt to environmental barriers in the home, and navigate daily challenges that come with sudden life changes.
This flexible space contains exam tables typically seen in hospitals and clinics. Physical therapy and occupational therapy students use the space to learn orthotic fabrication, application of physical agent modalities, and orthopedic intervention skills. Nursing students use the space to learn to conduct health assessments.
These two labs contain eight low fidelity beds that can be set up with four low fidelity mannequins one high-fidelity mannequin and two large tables for practice of clinical skills. One of the hospital bed areas has a ceiling lift to teach students safe patient handling techniques.
Nursing students use this space to learn a variety of procedural skills including drawing blood, wound care, IV placement and airway management. Other health professional student use the space and equipment to prepare for internships in hospital settings.
These rooms permit simulation specialists to operate the patient simulators from computers. The control rooms also house the wireless microphone receivers and video recorders. The simulation specialist works with the faculty to call up and modify simulation scenarios, watch the performance of the learners, and even provide the patient’s “voice” through a speaker in the mannequin’s head.
Bronx Clinical Simulation Labs
Health professional students (Nursing and Physician Assistant) have three specialized clinical simulation labs located on the Bronx campus. The labs offer students additional experience reacting to real-life medical scenarios that further prepares them for entry into the clinical year. A Health Assessment lab with specialized exam tables is also available.