Equipment
The Centre for Nursing Simulation offers training internship through simulators, i.e. devices that reproduce the essential characteristics of a status from work. There are different types of simulators, of which the Centre for Nursing Simulation has:
Task Trainers
Task trainers are devices designed to train a skill. They can represent a part of the human body and have a built-in electronic mechanism to teach and give feedback on the skill performed.
- Bladder catheterisation
- Adult and paediatric venous puncture
- Arterial puncture
- Intramuscular, subcutaneous and intradermal puncture
- Epicranial access puncture
- Sutures
- Healing of different types of wounds
- Application of enemas
- Insertion of gastric tubes
- Ostomy care
- Breast examination
- Scrotal exploration
- CPR and AED
- Heimlich
- Orotracheal intubation
- Pulmonary and cardiac auscultation
- Tracheostomy care
- Ear canal examination
Dummies
This is a person-sized simulator with different levels of physiological functions and fidelity. The following mannequins are available at the Nursing Simulation Center:
Height: 188cm
Weight: 45.4Kg
Live voice
Capacities and possibilities:
- Airway with possibility of ventilation guide
- Breathing and heart sounds
- CPR, electrical therapy
- Monitoring
- Vital signs
- Neurological, cardiocirculatory and pulmonary parameters
- Pulses
- Venous access
- Abdominal sounds
- Gastric and bladder catheterisation
- Thoracic drainage
- Physiological response to drugs and fluids
- Articulated limbs
Height: 175 cm
Weight: 48 kg
Live voice
Capacities and possibilities:
- Orotracheal intubation
- Mechanical ventilation and guide
- CPR, electrical therapy
- Vital signs
- Neurological, cardiocirculatory and pulmonary parameters
- Monitoring
- ECG and electrical therapy
- Bladder catheterisation
- Physiological response to fluid and drug administration
- Venous access
- Articulated limbs with physiological movement.
Mannequin with the appearance of a geriatric patient.
Possibility to practice care:
- Patient positioning
- Patient transfer techniques
- Bed baths
- Change of clothes
- Hair care - washing and brushing
- Oral hygiene
- Irrigation of the eye
- Oral and nasal lavage, tube feeding and suctioning
- Bladder catheterisation - female and male
- Ileostomy and colostomy care: lavage and suctioning
- Placement of nasogastric tubes
- Prostate examination (stage B) in men
- Visual inspection of: o Decubitus ulcer (Stage I)
- Dilated pupil compared to normal
- Comparison of cancerous mole with normal
- Reddened skin folds
- Papa Nicolau and douching
- Intramuscular injection in arms, thigh and buttocks
- Dressing and washing of wounds
- Hearing aid removal and insertion techniques
- Bandage for fingers and toes. Flexible fingers
- Tracheostomy care: lavage and suctioning
- Denture extraction
- Administration of enemas