Clinical Practice Wards

Our Clinical Practice Wards are located in the Mary Seacole Building on the second floor. There are 4 rooms designed to give the look and feel of a hospital environment. The rooms are furnished with patient’s beds, lockers, chairs, sinks and curtains as well as audio-visual equipment, internet and a teaching area.

A wide range of training aids and equipment are available for practice, including:

• Venepuncture and cannulation training arms
• Catheterisation, tracheostomy , intramuscular and enema training aids
• Skeletons
• Torsos
• Adult, child and infant resuscitation mannequins
• Electrocardiograph machine
• Defibrillator
• Dinamaps electronic blood pressure machine

The practice wards have been developed to allow students to learn the art and science of their chosen profession in a safe and relaxed environment.

Students at the university currently use the wards to learn skills from the most basic:

• Handwashing
• Bed/Cot-making
• Bed-bathing
• Eye care
• Eating and drinking
• Elimination
• Paediatric/Adult basic life support
• Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation
• First aid to a person who is choking
• Observational skills and physiological measurement, including, temperature, pulse and blood pressure

To the more complex:

• Urinary catherterisation and catherer care
• Injection technique
• Medicine administration
• Neurological observation
• Intravenous fluid replacement therapy
• Nasogastric intubation
• Care of the deceased person
• Bleeding and shock procedures
• Managing violence and aggression
• Asepsis

We also have 2 moving and handling rooms, equipped with hoists and handling aids and audio-visual.

If you are interested in hiring these facilities, then please contact us by e-mail or call 0845234 0184.