Facilities
Welcome to our innovative Simulation Training Centre, a state-of-the-art facility designed to offer nursing students a comprehensive and immersive learning experience through cutting-edge technologies and expert facilitation. Equipped with a variety of high-fidelity manikins, our centre replicates a realistic ward environment that supports multipatient simulation, enabling students to engage in authentic, team-based clinical practice across diverse healthcare settings.
Leveraging AI-driven technologies, VR360 experiences, and our immersive VR Cave, learners are exposed to dynamic, scenario-based simulations that enhance their clinical reasoning, decision-making, and adaptability under real-world conditions. The Simulation Community Centre further extends learning into community and global health contexts, fostering cultural competence and holistic care approaches.
Our humanoid robots, Nao and Pepper, enrich communication and patient interaction training, allowing students to practice assessment, consultation, and interprofessional collaboration. Guided by a dedicated team of simulation and debriefing experts, every session is carefully structured to optimize reflection, feedback, and continuous improvement.
Together, these innovations ensure that our School of Nursing Simulation Centre empowers future nurses with the clinical expertise, empathy, and technological fluency essential to excel in today’s evolving healthcare landscape.
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Our Simulation and Technology-Enhanced Learning Centre provides a comprehensive range of low-, medium-, and high-fidelity learning experiences to support nursing students’ competency development. Simulation is widely used across nursing education, enabling learners to practise clinical reasoning, communication, and psychomotor skills within safe and controlled environments. To maximise learning outcomes, simulation activities are integrated into a scaffolded curriculum and supported by experienced educators who employ structured debriefing techniques to enhance reflection and performance improvement.
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Advanced VR and AI-Enhanced Simulation Facilities
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1. AI-Powered Virtual Reality (VR) Clinical Handover Simulation
We recently introduced an innovative AI-powered VR simulation system featuring interactive AI patients and AI nurses. This system is designed to enhance nursing students’ self-efficacy and communication competencies—especially in clinical handover. By leveraging advanced generative AI, students engage in dynamic, real-time conversations and decision-making processes in realistic clinical settings. This transformative learning experience prepares students for complex real-world scenarios and promotes safer patient care practices. -
2. VR CAVE for Community Health Nursing Education
Our VR CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment) is a high-immersion learning facility that projects life-sized, 3D home environments onto all walls of a room-scale space. Students can freely move, observe, and interact with approximately twenty embedded cues representing home safety hazards, cultural contexts, and clinical needs. This immersive environment strengthens students’ knowledge, self-confidence, and satisfaction in community health nursing education by allowing them to perform realistic home assessments in a safe environment. -
3. Virtual Escape Room Challenge & Case-Based Learning Modules
The Virtual Escape Room Challenge and Case-based Learning in Community Health Practice are interprofessional learning initiatives designed for healthcare students across disciplines. These modules enhance collaborative problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills. Through an engaging virtual escape-room format and structured case-based discussions, students learn to assess community needs, prioritise interventions, and formulate evidence-based care plans in a highly interactive environment. -
4. Virtual Intelligent Training with AI-Debriefing & Learning in Simulation (VITALS)
VITALS is our proprietary GenAI-powered simulation platform that enables students to perform virtual assessments with AI-driven patients presenting a range of clinical conditions. Based on the student’s assessment performance, the system generates immediate AI-driven nursing diagnoses, personalised feedback, and automated scoring of clinical competence. This adaptive training system supports deliberate practice and enhances learners’ ability to think critically and make safe clinical decision -
5. Robotic Patients (Nao and Pepper)
Nao and Pepper robots support communication and consultation training. They help students practise patient interviews, symptom assessment, and interdisciplinary communication in an interactive and engaging manner.
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