Clinical Education and Simulation Lab
Simulate practical experience, right on campus.
Providing a wealth of opportunities, the Clinical Education and Simulation Lab (CESiL), located in the Nexus Building, is where we translate theory into practice. Our nursing students can demonstrate mastery of knowledge, develop clinical decision-making skills, and gain confidence in their abilities needed to improve healthcare outcomes.
Mission
The mission of CESiL Center is to provide experiential learning opportunities to foster the development of essential skills to ensure safe, qualified, reflective practitioners, scientists, and scholars.
Vision
CESiL will be a leader in the field of simulation education and research to improve educational outcomes and impact health outcomes.
Values
- Excellence: Inspire and support outstanding innovative experiential learning opportunities that are diverse and inclusive. Use a competency-based framework and reflective learning practices to develop clinical judgement. Use rigorous evidence-based methodologies to develop, implement and evaluate strategies to promote quality and safety in practice.
- Engagement: Foster partnerships within and beyond our university community supporting healthcare simulation education for community health, professional programs, and healthcare organizations. Foster effective communication and interprofessional collaboration.
- Diversity and Respect: Embrace and support diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, with a focus on global awareness.
The Nexus Building is home to the College of Nursing and Public Health’s Clinical Education and Simulation Lab—a 22-bed lab that simulates the hospital setting with all appropriate and supportive supplies and equipment.
Our state-of-the-art center includes:
- a 22-bed lab
- one fully functioning community health room (set up as a one-bedroom studio apartment)
- seven clinical exam rooms
- one pediatric exam room
- two classrooms fully wired for testing and web conference
- four high-fidelity mannequins
- 20 low-fidelity mannequins
- birthing mother mannequin
- pediatric, newborn and child mannequins
- an obesity suit
Clinical Education & Simulation Lab (CESiL)
Located in the Nexus Building at Adelphi, the 22-bed CESiL features seven clinical exam rooms, a delivery room, a pediatric exam room, and a home-care setting. Students safely train in scenarios from emergency to routine, allowing for mistakes without risk to patients. Launch Gallery
Clinical Education & Simulation Lab (CESiL)
Located in the Nexus Building at Adelphi, the 22-bed CESiL features seven clinical exam rooms, a delivery room, a pediatric exam room, and a home-care setting. Students safely train in scenarios from emergency to routine, allowing for mistakes without risk to patients. 7 Photos-
During a high-fidelity simulation, a faculty member provides remote support to nursing students to guide them through a variety of clinical scenarios.
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Telepresence robots like this one are used for remote monitoring in CESiL’s home-care suite as well as in the growing home healthcare field. They enhance both nursing and healthcare informatics students’ educational experience.
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For College of Nursing and Public Health nursing students, learning in the various CESiL simulated settings and situations is like training in a real hospital. That experience was especially invaluable in the midst of the pandemic, nursing students said.
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By practicing their clinical skills in a realistic hospital setting and learning how to safely and accurately administer medications, nursing students become well prepared for their first RN jobs.
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Here, a cohort of students addresses an emergency code situation with a high-fidelity manikin and gains experience in electronic medical record processes. Various manikins, supportive supplies and state-of-the-art equipment enable faculty and students to translate theory into practice.
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Faculty use this pediatric manikin to train their students in everything from routine to emergency experiences. When used with an obesity suit, the manikin enables nurses to learn about the treatment of child obesity, a growing problem in the 6-to-9 age bracket.
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Victoria, a high-fidelity maternal simulator manikin, arrived at CESiL with two baby manikins in March 2019—able to simulate a complete range of situations that nurses may face in the delivery room, from typical neonatal care to obstetric emergencies.
Our skills laboratory simulates a hospital setting with all appropriate equipment. This includes advanced patient care mannequins and simulators, as well as many other innovative educational devices.
In addition to regularly scheduled classes held in the nursing laboratory, open laboratory skills sessions are held regularly with a clinical coordinator. We provide all students with an opportunity for reinforcement of clinical learning in our ultra-modern simulation labs.
