Skills training and simulation in nursing, midwifery and physiotherapy
In the department's laboratories, students develop the skills and competences to act in complex learning situations.
A simulation is a created "real world" (Timmermann et al 2007). The laboratories are therefore designed and equipped to be practical and realistic. The students' action competences develop in a protected space.
The laboratories for nursing and midwifery have the most modern client simulators, practice-relevant medical technology equipment as well as audio and video technology and imitate the typical environment in the professional fields through the specially compiled equipment. In skills training and simulations of situations from the individual (or joint) professional fields, students develop professional, methodological and social competences for working with clients. Some of the exercises are also carried out on an interdisciplinary basis.
In physiotherapy, the effect of the therapeutic treatment of clients is also determined in the laboratories using highly sensitive measurement procedures and methods and then interpreted. The equipment of the laboratories therefore includes state-of-the-art measurement devices for sound diagnostics.
The evidence laboratory LE:GO in the Department of Health Sciences offers Bachelor's and Master's students the opportunity to deepen their scientific work, especially when training units in systematic database research and data evaluation are offered. The equipment of the evidence laboratory therefore includes a PC pool with online database access and software systems for the evaluation of data from qualitative and quantitative research approaches.
The totality and diversity of the laboratories for the acquisition of clinical-practical, diagnostic, scientific and thus also technical, methodological and social competences represent an exceptional and excellent opportunity in the educational offer of the health professions at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, which exists in this form at only a few academic institutions. In principle, they offer all students a wide range of learning opportunities.