Y Swit

Y Swit is our simulated hospital setting that creates a realistic environment where you can develop your technical skills and practice safe and effective patient care.

These facilities include a briefing room, mock theatre and four large six-bedded bays to support the running of professional and interprofessional simulated scenarios in an acute/hospital setting.

Y Swit closely resembles a real hospital ward, including the increasingly sophisticated technology that is found in modern day healthcare settings as well as simulated patients. This combination allows our midwifery and nursing students to experience all aspects of a functioning hospital ward.

Simulated learning helps you to develop the full range of skills that will be required of you as a healthcare professions in a controlled and safe environment. The facilities in Y Swit have been carefully designed to help you develop your confidence and expertise in your chosen field, and also gives you the opportunity to learn how to deal with complex situations that you may not experience often on placement.

The suite is comprised of several stations, each fulfilling a specific purpose.

• Bay 1 is a Children's Ward that is primarily (but not exclusively) used by students on the Child Nursing programme.
• Bays 2, 3 & 4 are 6-bedded bays that can be used to deliver multiple clinical skills and simulation sessions. These spaces mirror real world ward settings and can be adapted to suit teaching requirements.
• The Nurses Station illustrates how students are expected to act as they would on a real hospital ward when using Y Swit (The Suite), fully performing all elements of their professional role.
• The Treatment Room is where students will come to prepare injections and collect the materials they need for bedside treatment.

Patient Simulators

We have a range of simulators from part task trainers to full patient manikins with physiological responses which reflect the diversity of the population we care for, allowing learners to practice skills essential for the delivery of healthcare in a safe and supportive learning environment.

Paediatric HAL®

Paediatric HAL® is the world's most advanced paediatric patient simulator and the first capable of simulating lifelike emotions through dynamic facial expressions, movement, and speech. HAL is designed to help providers of all levels develop the specialized skills needed to effectively communicate, diagnose, and treat young patients in nearly all clinical areas.

• Interactive eyes and active facial expressions
• Dynamic lung compliance with true ventilator support
• Real patient monitor support: SpO₂, EKG, capnography, NIBP, live pacing, and defibrillation
• Emergency intervention: surgical airway, needle decompression, chest tube insertion
• Wireless and tetherless

Juno CAE - adult manikins

Juno is a modern manikin that comes in both male and female form that was designed to meet educational requirements for clinical nursing skills, from task training through advanced patient care scenarios.

With a wide-range of realistic articulation, Juno can sit upright at a full 90-degree angle. Add to the realism of conflicting patient priorities by running synchronized simulations on multiple Juno manikins simultaneously. This wireless and tetherless mid-fidelity manikin is ideal for:

• fluid administration (eyes and ears)
• care and maintenance of nasogastric tubes, chest tubes, stomas and tracheostomies
• intramuscular injections
• intravenous insertions

Paediatric Skill Training Manikins

Designed according to the anatomical characteristics of child and specializing in childcare training.

With an airway administering realistic mouth, nose, tongue, gum, pharynx, larynx, oesophagus, epiglottis, trachea and tracheal ring, students can practice tracheal intubation, sputum suction and oxygen inhaling as well as oral and nasal feeding.

SimBaby

The SimBaby tetherless simulator  is a full scale 9-month-old paediatric patient simulator that allows the student to perform relevant paediatric emergency skills and scenarios.

SimBaby has a realistic airway system which allows for accurate simulation of all relevant scenarios and life-like infant breathing patterns and complications, bringing realism to the infant simulation experience.

SimMom Birthing Simulator

SimMom is an advanced full-body interactive birthing simulator used mainly in the midwifery branch of education, though she can also be used for non-obstetric training as well as working as a pregnancy simulator.

She provides realistic practice of multiple delivery positions such as supine, all fours and legs in stirrups, although she also assists in the teaching of manoeuvres, teamwork, leadership and communication skills in a risk-free environment.

She comes complete with a birthing baby which can be fully manipulated to allow all manoeuvres required during deliveries, including normal, breech presentation, shoulder dystocia, cord prolapse and forceps delivery to name a few.

Using the vital signs monitors, students can view all vital signs of the mother along with Electronic Foetal Monitoring for added realism.

SimNewB

SimNewB is a newborn simulator designed to help improve neonatal resuscitation and to meet the specific learning objectives of neonatal resuscitation protocols.

Focusing on the first 10 minutes of life, SimNewB provides realistic training for critical interventions such as lung recruitment manoeuvres and advanced airway management.

SimNewB Tetherless

SimNewB is a newborn tetherless simulator designed to help improve neonatal resuscitation and to meet the specific learning objectives of neonatal resuscitation protocols.

Focusing on the first 10 minutes of life, SimNewB provides realistic training for critical interventions.