Nursing & Midwifery Lab

Welcome to SIU nursing and midwifery Lab. Our Lab's purpose of the clinical skills lab is to facilitate student's clinical learning in nursing and midwifery. It provides a safe and realistic environment for students to practice, experiment, make mistakes, and learn. It facilitates the opportunity for students to recognize gaps in their knowledge and experience and to identify their own learning needs. Simulation education is a bridge between classroom learning and real-life clinical experience. It offers a scheduled, valuable learning experience that may be difficult to obtain while on clinical placement. The safe environment accommodates training of a clinical skill, cognitive thinking and behavioral communication. Simulation can facilitate a range of learners from novices to experts. Simulation can also be used as an evaluation tool in the form of Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE).