The Simulation lab at ANHO is an on-campus hospital unit featuring three patient care rooms, triage and medication areas and a nursing station, each equipped with state of the art technology and resources allowing students to demonstrate nursing care, practice assessment, communication and documentation skills as well as procedural techniques in a safe and realistic clinical setting.

Four Gaumard High Fidelity Human Patient Simulators and multiple other skills training tools allow students to engage in real-life patient care scenarios such as an adult client after open heart surgery, a pediatric client having an asthma exacerbation, a maternity client giving birth and a newborn transitioning to life outside the womb. The possibilities are endless, and always connected to in-class learning.

Simulation technology makes it possible for students to detect normal and abnormal heart and lung sounds, auscultate fetal heartbeats, manage IV and wound care, perform suction and catheterization techniques, safely administer medications to clients throughout the lifespan, and work with the health care team preparing them for entry to nursing practice after graduation.