Clinical Skills Lab
Using Technology to Enhance Deeper Learning
The Jacksonville University Keigwin School of Nursing Skills Laboratory is dedicated to providing a positive and student-centered learning environment. The Skills lab contains 8 outpatient examination tables and several workstations that allow the students to practice and master physical assessment and skills for the undergraduate and graduate specialty programs. Jacksonville University students interact with simulated persons (SP’s) or actors portraying the roles of patients and family members in the Skills Lab to enhance their clinical training and interpersonal skills. The Skills Lab is also home to our Anatomage table which is a 3-D computer-generated cadaver imaging system to help facilitate interactive learning.
The Skills Lab is managed by a team of experts who are passionate about equipping students with the knowledge and skills they need to be competent and confident in the professional healthcare environment. The Skills Lab collaborates with multiple healthcare science disciplines to strengthen learning and optimize student outcomes by utilizing innovative approaches to experiential learning. The goal of the Skills Lab is to help students bridge the gap between the classroom and the clinical setting. The Skills Lab provides a safe space for students to practice their clinical skills in a low-risk environment before interacting with patients in the clinical setting.
Mission, Vision and Values Statement
Mission Statement
The mission of Jacksonville University’s Simulation Training and Applied Research (STAR) Center and Skills Lab is to provide invaluable experiential learning that integrates communication, teamwork, clinical assessment, and skill development in a safe environment, empowering healthcare students to enhance their critical thinking, clinical judgement, and diagnostic reasoning in preparation for clinical practice and compassionate care of our culturally diverse community.
Vision
The Simulation Training and Applied Research (STAR) Center will serve as a center of excellence leveraging innovative best practices in simulation-based education to develop exemplary healthcare professionals who enhance patient care and positively impact the community.
Values
- Clinical Excellence
- Advocacy
- Compassion
- Respect
- Collaboration
- Accountability
Forms
Standardized Patient Program
Standardized Patient ProgramLab Request Form
Lab Request FormStandardized Patient Request Form
Standardized Patient Request FormStandardized Patient Cue Card Template
Standardized Patient Cue Card TemplateDiverse Patient Care Environments
The Skills Lab teaches patient care by allowing students to utilize:
Undergraduate Nursing
- IV Arms with blood return
- Alaris IV Pumps
- Wound Care task trainers
- Pelvic trainers for Indwelling Urinary Catheterization
- Chester Chest Vascular Simulator for Central Line, PICC line, and Port Access
- Tracheostomy Care Trainer
- Cardionics Simscope and Wearable Simulator
- Nasogastric tube (NG tube) Model
- Kangaroo Pump for Enteral Feeding
- Medication Carts with Workstations on Wheels and Bar Code Medication Administration
- Vital Sign and Assessment Headwalls
Graduate Nursing
- Suture Skills Trainer
- Ear/Nose Throat Trainer with iPads
- Pelvic and Breast trainers
- Prostate trainers
- Arterial line Trainer
- Central Line, PICC Line insertion trainer with ultrasound capabilities
- Assessment Kits
- Auscultation Torso Trainers
- Cardionics Simscope and Wearable Simulator
- Abdominal Trainer
- High Fidelity Manikins
Learning the fundamental nursing skills begins the scaffolding process of incorporation of curricular based simulation that is incorporated throughout the undergraduate and graduate nursing program. The nursing faculty and staff maintain a positive learning environment with a focus on teaching students to provide safe, quality care to the adult and pediatric patient population. Nursing students start with practicing patient care in the Skills Lab and STAR Center and progress to providing high quality, safe patient care in the acute care setting.