Onsite Nursing Simulation Labs

While you’ll learn critical nursing concepts as part of the online component of our ABSN coursework, you can’t become an accomplished nurse without hands-on experience. That’s why another key part of the ABSN program at UST involves nursing skills and simulation labs.

At our ABSN program sites in Shenandoah and Sugar Land, or at our main campus in downtown Houston, you’ll work with instructors and classmates on developing and honing your nursing skills and clinical judgement using high-tech medical manikins and state-of-the-art equipment. Here, you’ll also gain confidence in developing critical nursing skills before doing so in a real-world clinical environment.

Skills Labs

Our accelerated BSN skills labs mimic the hospital setting and feature all the high-tech medical equipment and supplies you’d expect to find in such an environment as well as realistic medical manikins. Combined with nursing theory knowledge learned in the online portion of our ABSN program, you’ll use this facility and its tools to hone such nursing skills as:

Holistic head-to-toe assessment
Nasogastric (NG) tube insertion
Blood pressure and heart rate monitoring
Wound care

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Simulation Labs

Once you master the skills of nursing, you’ll put them to the test during nursing simulation labs. It’s during these realistic patient care scenarios that students’ critical thinking, collaboration and problem-solving skills will be challenged in a risk-free environment.

Throughout the program, students participate in mock clinical scenarios focused on specific learning objectives, take on various roles—patient, family member, doctor or nurse—to gain key perspectives from all sides of the situation, and learn how to communicate effectively.

The goal of this portion of your accelerated nursing education isn’t to get everything perfect the first time. In fact, during nursing simulation labs, mistakes are encouraged! At the end of every simulation, you’ll participate in debriefing sessions with instructors and classmates to reflect on the experience and learn from it without judgement.

Connect with a dedicated admissions advisor and learn more about how our nursing simulation labs, combined with other parts of UST’s ABSN curriculum, will prepare you for a solid nursing future.