SimMan Patient Simulator Challenges Students' Skills

The College is well on its way in creating a renovated, state-of-the-art Learning Resource Center. Anchoring this project is SimMan, a computer-driven, interactive adult patient simulator.

Instructors create patient scenarios within the software that challenge and test critical clinical and decision-making skills. "Beginning students work with SimMan to understand the body's response to a decrease in oxygen and how to intervene appropriately. Senior students will be challenged with more complex scenarios involving a variety of disease processes such as diabetic ketoacidosis or abnormal heart rhythms," says Claudia Diebold, M.S.N., R.N., a lecturer with the College.

SimMan is especially designed to create situations related to typical and non-typical difficult airway management. It is used in both undergraduate and graduate nursing courses.

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