New Sheridan College Health Science Center Will Allow Nursing Students To Go Through Simulations

Once the new Perkins Health Science Center is up and running at Sheridan College, some nursing students will get a more hands-on approach with certain simulated medical situations.

As either part of a lesson or an exam, students can go into a room with a mannequin and perform a simulated life saving procedure, or there may be a pregnant mannequin and students would have to learn and/or perform a procedure to help give birth.

College President Dr. Walter Tribley explains how the procedures will be more realistic, and how students will learn through more than just book lessons and lectures.

“Those simulation rooms have mirrors where the operator controlling what happens in a simulated procedure, a simulated environment, with a mannequin and nursing students, let’s say and those simulations are controlled by our faculty and they’re watching our students perform. The students will be filmed, they can learn from their own performance in that way.”

Dr. Tribley says classes within the new center should start in the upcoming fall semester.