Soon the Thompson Rivers University School of Nursing’s Mobile Simulation Lab will be hitting the road.
It will provide TRU students living in BC’s rural areas in-person clinical training in their own communities.
“We’ve had students drop out because they didn’t want to leave their communities,” stated School of Nursing Associate Dean Tracy Hoot. “By bringing education to rural learners, our hope is that it will help keep people in their communities where there is a great demand for health-care services.”
The mobile lab allows faculty to use a variety of simulators and task trainers to provide diverse training experiences.
That includes a high-fidelity simulator designed for clinical training which accurately recreates normal and abnormal breathing sounds,heart rates and rhythms, and bowel sounds
The lab will also allow students to practice patient care, safe patient handling, lifts and transfers and has the capacity to be used for other purposes as well including as a mobile vaccination unit and a mobile health care clinic.
The School of Nursing Mobile Simulation Lab is a part of TRU’s Simulation based learning centre.
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