Clinical simulation unit (CSU)

The Clinical Simulation Unit at the University of York is a purpose-built education facility in the Seebohm Rowntree Building.  It provides the perfect environment in which healthcare practitioners and students can develop and enhance their clinical skills safely. 

Facilities in the Unit include:

  • Two four-bedded bays
  • Nurses’ station
  • Intensive care suite with two Sim Men
  • Clean preparation area
  • Sluice
  • Community bedroom

Innovative Patient Models

The Unit benefits from two Sim Men, enabling students to practice their skills before they move on to real patients.  These are innovative patient models which breathe mechanically and produce appropriate sound effects such as coughing and vomiting.  They can demonstrate problems which a patient might develop over a period of time.  A team of students will be able to investigate what is happening and take appropriate action, for example in an emergency where a patient has stopped breathing.

A training facility for outside organisations

This superb facility is also available for use as a training facility by outside organisations, together with adjoining seminar rooms and lecture theatres.

Developing Clinical Skills

CSU staff coordinate and develop clinical skills in the first year for pre-registration nursing students at York.  They also run ‘drop-in’ sessions, to support students with further practice and development of their clinical skills.  A wide variety of teaching resources are available. 

These include:

  • specialised electric beds
  • resuscitation manikins
  • moving and handling equipment
  • monitoring equipment
  • infusion pumps
  • procedure simulators
  • infection control equipment
 
Clinical simulation units (CSU)

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