Hands-On Learning in Nursing Labs: Skills and Simulation Training
Becoming a nurse requires hands-on practice to deepen your understanding of essential nursing skills and develop clinical judgment. Whether you participate in our hybrid or on-ground ABSN, in-person nursing labs are instrumental in preparing you to provide high-quality patient care.
Felician University’s state-of-the-art Nursing Resource and Simulation Center is where you build on your coursework, providing you with safe, risk-free nursing labs to practice essential skills, so that you confidently enter clinicals and the nursing profession.

Skills Labs
Before you can jump in and perform a life-saving procedure, you need to have a thorough mastery of basic nursing techniques. Skills labs held at our Nursing Resource and Simulation Center allow you to hone essential nursing skills like checking vital signs or inserting a catheter.
Our nursing labs are fully equipped to resemble a realistic clinical environment, using medical simulators and advanced medical equipment you’ll find in hospitals and health centers across the country.
Your skills labs will teach you how to perform fundamental nursing tasks, such as:
- Performing head-to-toe assessments
- Checking patients’ vital signs (e.g., breathing, blood pressure, pulse)
- Nasogastric intubation
- Administering wound care
Learning how to perform these skills in a safe, controlled setting without risking harm to real-life patients helps students build their confidence, so they can enter clinical rotations prepared to carry out fundamental nursing duties.
Nursing Simulation Labs
Of course, while basic nursing skills are essential, you must apply critical thinking to solve problems, determine what is going on with a patient, and respond to rapidly changing situations. Nursing simulation labs immerse you in life-like care situations, forcing you to make decisions based on everything you’ve learned and observed.
In this type of nursing lab, you’ll treat high-tech medical manikins that simulate a variety of medical conditions and scenarios with startling accuracy. They can talk and experience allergic reactions, adding realism to a setting designed to resemble a real hospital.
Immediately following these simulated exercises, you’ll meet with your lab instructors and classmates to debrief. These debriefs provide you with insights into your own thinking and reactions and allow your instructors to tailor future exercises, lessons, and discussions to help you and your cohort learn.
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