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BryanLGH College of Health Sciences utilizes three state-of-the-art, high-fidelity human patient simulators to assist healthcare students in applying classroom knowledge. The hands-on, realistic adult and pediatric simulators respond physiologically to student interventions, such as medication administration, intravenous fluid infusions and application of oxygen. The simulators have realistic features, such as blinking eyes with pupils that react to light, chests that rise and fall with respirations, palpable pulses, various heart and lung sounds, and the ability to cry, drool and bleed. The simulators have procedural features which allow for chest tube and tracheotomy management, defibrillation and urinary catheter insertion.

BryanLGH College of Health Sciences is one of only very few health sciences colleges in the country to house such state-of-the-art human patient simulators—and we are the only facility in Nebraska to offer a model that has lung physiology matching human breathing exactly. There are three such simulators at the College: “Stan,” who is our most technologically advanced adult model, “Bryan,” a portable adult model and “LG”—or, “Little Guy - our pediatric simulator.

The simulators help students improve their assessment skills. They also provide students with the opportunity to evaluate abnormal as well as normal findings. Critical thinking, communication and teamwork skills are honed as students learn to manage the care of a simulated patient that responds to their interventions and decisions.

The Dean of Educational Technology coordinates all Nursing and Allied Health instructional activities for the simulators and facilitates simulated clinical experiences that incorporate the theory learned in the classroom, allowing students to apply what they have learned in a hands-on, interactive, risk-free environment.  Students progress within a novice-to-expert framework as they move through the program of study.

For more information about our Human Patient Simulators, contact Dr. Kim Leighton, Dean of Educational Technology, at (402) 481-8713.