Record-setting Freshman Class Enters Walsh University

sophomores can use it to learn how to take
blood pressure or our seniors can use it for
critical care skills. Faculty can purchase
scenarios for SimMan as well as program
their own scenarios. We can make SimMan
speak Spanish if we want to, which also
prepares students for other cases they may
encounter in the field. It really is amazing.”
Funding for the SimMan came in part from
the Albert W. and Edith V. Flowers Charitable
Foundation and the Ada & Helen Rank
Charitable Trust.
On the Horizon
Walsh University is looking ahead to continue
the growth of its nursing program. Currently
the division is developing a graduate level
nursing program pending approval and
accreditation. The program is anticipated to
launch in 2010.
SimMan
Walsh University is not only raising the bar
academically but technologically. Currently,
the Walsh Nursing program has established
a virtual reality laboratory, which houses
simulation devices and related software that
helps students master clinical skills and be
better able to perform in a clinical setting.
A valuable teaching tool, students will
enhance their learning experience and
proficiency in procedures through simulated
scenarios via a SimMan patient simulator.
Designed by Laerdal Medical, a world-wide
leader in supplying this type of technology,
SimMan Universal Patient Simulator is a
portable, patient simulator with a realistic
anatomy designed to train nursing students
and enhance team training for clinical
efficiency. This mobile manikin can be
programmed by nursing faculty to have any
ailment or injury in order to challenge and
test students and improve decision-making
skills during realistic care scenarios. The
device allows learners to practice extreme
emergency treatments of a patient as well.
SimMan is able to breath and talk, among
many other features. Nursing students can
even change the anatomy of the manikin to
practice the treatment of female patients.
“It’s a model that students can respond to,”
says Linc. “Faculty run it by computer and
we can make it talk to students. You can
program him to react and respond as a real
patient may respond in a clinical setting.”
“With our program getting bigger and our
students competing with other area schools
for clinical spots out in the hospitals, it is
becoming more difficult for students to
obtain the experience they need,” says
Linc. “But having SimMan on campus
allows our students to get that experience
now and on many different levels. We can
make it a fairly simple scenario or we can
make it extremely complex. So, our
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