Ithaca College's Healthcare Simulation Lab is set up like a real hospital room, with two manikins that can be preprogrammed with various lifelike scenarios. You can practice performing perform diagnostics on the manikins, including monitoring breathing, heart rate, and blood pressure; getting electrocardiogram (ECG) readings; and placing intravenous lines.
Used by all students within HSHP, the lab helps you to build your clinical, problem-solving, and collaborative skills. It is most frequently used in upper-level coursework and during health care professions team-based interprofessional education (IPE) activities.
The lab allows for practice in a relatively low-pressure environment before embarking on external internships or clinical placements, experiencing real-life scenarios with lower stress. With this foundation, you have the space to make mistakes and improve, to build confidence and feel well-prepared participating in off-campus placements.
Build Confidence in Your Clinical Skills
A safe space to make mistakes, receive feedback from caring faculty, and perfect your clinical skills before clinical fieldwork or rotations.
“Our Healthcare Simulation Lab provides a hands-on experience that’s risk-free but still very intense. It also provides the opportunity for students to go back and reflect on the experience.”
Chris Hummel, MS ’00, clinical professor and chair of the Department of Exercise Science and Athletic Training
For More Information
Nathan Frakes
Biomechanics and Simulation Lab Manager and Research Assistant
Center for Health Sciences, Room 102
953 Danby Road
Ithaca, NY 14850