Nursing Simulation Lab Gets Boost from UC Medical Center

The UC College of Nursing’s simulation laboratories in Procter Hall and at UC East in Clermont County will benefit from a donation of equipment from University of Cincinnati Medical Center. 

The hospital, in early May, delivered a bed, anesthesia machine, IV pumps, vital sign monitors and several other pieces of equipment to be used in skills training. The college’s nurse anesthesia program, in particular, will be able to use the donated items to improve the fidelity of its operating room simulation space and provide more hands-on experience to students. 

The Skills and Simulation Lab at the UC College of Nursing is directed by Robin Wagner, registered nurse and UC assistant professor of nursing.

Debi Sampsel, DNP, serves as chief officer of innovation and entrepreneurship at the college and sees it as her role to connect faculty and students with technological advances that will ensure workforce readiness in a modern health care environment. 

"We take every opportunity we can to use new or existing technology, supplies or equipment and apply those things to the learning environment,” says Sampsel. "Donations like the one from UC Medical Center allow us to enhance student learning in our classroom and simulation settings.”