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CHS runs clinical simulations on high-fidelity manikins

by Kassandra A. Buenafe, OfCom | Feb 07 2024

The College of Health Sciences (CHS) conducted a brief clinical simulation to test the newly acquired high-fidelity manikins on January 31, 2024, at the Nursing Laboratory. Chancellor Alizedney M. Ditucalan and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Gaudencio Petalcorin, Jr. joined and engaged in the unveiling of the manikins.

The three training manikins –neonate, pediatric, and delivery– are the first high-fidelity manikins owned by the University. CHS Dean, Assoc. Prof. Abdullah Junior S. Mangarun, expressed that these manikins will provide a more realistic environment to help nursing students identify the appropriate nursing management for the scenarios to be provided by the faculty members during their practicum. 

Compared to their previous manikins that are only for demonstration, the high-fidelity ones are reactive to external stimuli and can be manipulated to depict certain medical conditions and reactions that one can get from an actual patient. This will challenge nursing students more as the college will now do away from the traditional approach of just providing the situations of the patients orally.

Prof. Mangarun highlighted that this will also foster a more efficient instructional context because students can afford to commit mistakes and correct them in the process to refine their skills before their actual exposure to hospitals. 

To forward innovative learning, the University plans to purchase in the future a geriatric manikin to simulate care for elderly patients and an AI manikin to even further a high degree of realism in the students’ training. 

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