Health facilities, virtual tours

This video pans across the Health student study space on level 6, building 10. The study desks form hexagonal shapes, there are computers along the walls and coloured plastic stools to sit on.

This is a video from inside the control room, looking out through the one-way glass into two teaching spaces. You can see beds on the left with mannequins lying in them, spanning over to the right there are work tables in the middle, a lecturn set up with projector over to the right and the flipped arrangement in the second lab.

This video pans through the maternity ward space. Along the walls, you can see clinical cots, beds, mannequins of people and babies.

In the middle of the room you there are square tables with chairs for students. This is a mixed learning and practical space.

There is a lecturn along one wall where there is a computer set up and a screen.

This video shows a 360 degree rotation with our scrub rooms.

This video spans from left to right of our clinical lab 3.

On the left you can see the projector screen on the wall with the lecturn in front. As we move into the middle you can see work desks with green chairs on castors. In the far back you can see the one-way mirror behind which is the control room. Along the back wall there are hospital beds with mannequins in them.

Clinical Lab 4 video transcript

This video is a 360 view of our lab on level 6, building 10.

The room has 2 projectors, one at either end of the room and a removable wall that can split the space into two.

The room is mainly occupied by tables and green chairs but along one wall, there are provisions to have simulation bays.

This is a 360 rotation view of our lab on level 6, building 10.

Similar to lab 6/7, this lab also has operable walls, which when pulled back creates our largest flexible learning lab space.

You can see glass panels as the long walls in this lab and projectors at either end of the room with lecturns in front. The whiteboards are the length of the short walls.

Simulation bays can be set up along the opposite long wall of the room.

Welcome to UTS's state of the art clinical laboratories. Class begins with our nursing students being invited into the lab by a member of the clinical teaching staff. Let's follow along.

Our laboratories are designed to mimic real world clinical practise so students can build the confidence necessary to treat future patients expertly. Students practise their skills on a selection of mannequins, part task trainers and at time they even get involved in role play scenarios, sometimes playing the patient themselves.

Most clinical laboratory spaces at UTS have a control room attached where academic and technical staff control, monitor and assess a student's engagement with our high fidelity mannequins. Students are examined on their skills in reaction to a number of scenario based assessments.

Our students have access to the supportive practise laboratory, a learning environment exclusive to UTS. Within this space, students practise any clinical skill of their choosing with a clinical facilitator under a guided practise approach.

UTS is Australia’s top ranked young university and ranked 1st in Australia for Nursing and Midwifery. We’re looking forward to welcoming you at our Health faculty!

Finbar: [00:00:03] Hi, welcome to the UTS Faculty of Health. Thank you so much for joining our nursing lab tour. On this level there are 16 clinical labs and eight simulation bays for our nursing and midwifery students.

Jenivy: [00:00:14] And here we're standing outside our clinical administration unit, who organise students' clinical placements in health care settings, like hospitals, aged care and community settings.

Finbar: [00:00:25] Let's head over the bridge to have a look at our facilities used for our nursing students.

Finbar: [00:00:29] Here is our first stop, a medical surgical nursing lab.

Jenivy: [00:00:40] Our labs are set up to look and feel exactly like hospitals, aged care facilities and primary health care services. The setup is flexible and there are generally two areas: the classroom area and the simulation area. In the simulation area of five to six bed spaces.

Finbar: [00:00:58] Between the labs is a preparation and equipment room. During class we access equipment we need for different nursing procedures.

Jenivy: [00:01:05] Back in the lab we have manikins to simulate patients.

Finbar: [00:01:09] Many of them are robotic and they have different levels of authenticity, or ability to mimic real-life patients. Some can simulate coughing, vomiting, perspiring, fitting and shivering. They can bleed or simulate a cardiac or respiratory arrest. They can speak, cry and groan so we can tell how they are feeling, just like a real-life patient.

Jenivy: [00:01:32] Simulated-based learning also involves role playing, where actors, people with lived experience, students and teachers all engage in clinical scenarios. These experiences help us to develop communication, empathy and teamwork skills, which are critical to good nursing.

Finbar: [00:01:50] Let's go meet one of our patients, SimMan.

Lily: [00:01:52] When you look around our patient's bed, you'll notice a lot of high-tech equipment. The large LCD screen can show data and scans such as blood results and X-rays. The monitor shows the patient's heart rate, oxygen saturations, temperature and blood pressure. Anything a student does to treat the manikin will be mirrored in their observations. So if they give blood pressure medicine, the manikin's blood pressure will change in response.

Lily: [00:02:16] On the ceiling are two microphones to capture what people are saying when they're working in this bed space. Three cameras reflect what's happening and can be viewed or saved in the control room for students to reflect on and learn from after the simulation.

Jenivy: [00:02:27] We've now entered the control room behind the one way mirror. It's the working hub for many simulated experiences.

Finbar: [00:02:36] The instructor PC shows the patient monitor screen. It controls the manikin and the responses triggered by students when they provide patient care. An instructor can direct the simulation from here as speaking as a patient through the manikin, or they can talk to the students via the speaker above the bed space.

Jenivy: [00:02:54] What happens in the control room is designed to ensure that simulations are realistic clinical scenarios so that students can learn in a really immersive way.

Finbar: [00:03:04] Now let's go have a look at one of our paediatric wards.

Michelle: [00:03:08] This space mimics a children's hospital setting. Nursing students learn about paediatrics throughout their degree, and they can also pick a paediatric elective in their third year. The manikins in here range from newborn to 12 years, but they have the same range of features as adult manikins. Paediatric processes can be complex, and one of the most important nursing skills is to administer medication correctly, because children's body weight is variable and much lower than adults', medication calculation is essential.

Lily: [00:03:41] Hi again. This is the perioperative nursing lab. You'll see that we have an operating theatre set up in here. In third year, nursing students can select perioperative nursing as an elective.

Jessica: [00:03:51] And this particular space is called the community room. It's flexible and can be used to simulate primary health care consultations, mental health nursing visits, care of an elderly person in their home and more.

Jenivy: [00:04:03] The last lab we'll visit today is this one, the practice lab.

Finbar: [00:04:08] This is where we can book in additional practice of our clinical skills.

Jenivy: [00:04:11] And build our confidence before clinical placements and assessments.

Finbar: [00:04:15] On our way out we'll take you past the student kitchenette.

Finbar: [00:04:18] In the kitchen, we have a fridge, freezer and microwave to be used by students at any time.

Jenivy: [00:04:25] And now we'll see our Health student computer and printing area. There's plenty of desks and bookable meeting rooms on this level, which makes it a popular place for group work and independent study.

Finbar: [00:04:40] Thanks so much for joining our tour. We hope you enjoyed gaining insight into being a nursing student at UTS.

Jenivy: [00:04:46] See you at UTS soon.

Josey: [00:00:04] Hi, welcome to UTS Faculty of Health. Come join us for our midwifery lab tour.

Jacqueline: [00:00:07] Let's head in and have a look at the clinical facilities available for UTS midwifery students.

Josey: [00:00:19] This is a midwifery learning space where most of our practical classes are. We can simulate environments where midwives practice, such as the home, hospital and emergency care settings. We do specific midwifery clinical skills and simulate normal and complex births. The simulation resources let us reproduce a range of midwifery scenarios during the pregnancy, labour and birth and postnatal care period.

Jacqueline: [00:00:41] The lab is an ideal place to practice as it accurately represents hospital and community settings so you can safely make mistakes here and learn from them. We have a few different pieces of equipment here, such as the birth bath, the stool, the rope, the beanbag and also manikins.

Jacqueline: [00:00:58] And the Resuscitaire. An open warmer that can be used after birth to help the baby if they need help breathing or to be resuscitated. It is also used for sick premature and full term babies to keep them warm when they need to be nursed in the intensive care.

Josey: [00:01:14] We have birthing simulators and manikins which can actually birth a baby. SimNewB can display symptoms of respiratory distress and realistic breathing. As a midwife we'll look after the mother and baby up to six weeks post-natal.

Jacqueline: [00:01:27] Connected to this lab is a scrub room with wash bay, storage and prep area.

Josey: [00:01:39] Let's take you to our clinical teaching and examination room. This room can be used for activities such as simulated community antenatal visits. It can be used as a women's health or diabetes clinic or another health setting.

Jacqueline: [00:02:00] Now we're in a space called the community room. This concept lab is a flexible space. The space can be set up for a variety of different midwifery scenarios. It can be used for situations such as home visits, home births, alternative births or antenatal and postnatal appointments.

Josey: [00:02:19] It's important to mention that not all our learning happens in labs. There's a lot of theory, anatomy and physiology and critical thinking. We also have tutorials in classrooms to learn non-technical skills such as communication, collaboration and teamwork, which are essential to midwifery practice.

Jacqueline: [00:02:34] Just across the way is our student computer area.

Jacqueline: [00:02:40] This is the computer area. Health students can access the computers and printers every day from 8.00am until 10pm.

Jacqueline: [00:02:49] There's also plenty of desks and a number of bookable meeting rooms across this level, making it a popular space for group work and quiet independent study.

Josey: [00:03:01] On our way out, we'll take you past the student kitchenette where we've got a fridge, freezer and a microwave for students to use at any time.

Josey: [00:03:14] Well thank you so much for joining our tour. We hope you've enjoyed this insight into being a midwifery student at UTS.

Jacqueline: [00:03:19] See you at UTS soon.

Tijana: [00:00:04] Hi, welcome to UTS Faculty of Health and welcome to our tour of the Moore Park precinct. This facility was built in partnership with Rugby Australia, Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust.

Jesse: [00:00:15] Here at Moore Park, UTS, we're extremely lucky to be surrounded by elite high performance sports, such as rugby league, rugby union, cricket and AFL. Let's come and look inside and see what's available here at UTS for Sport and Exercise students.

Tijana: [00:00:32] Our first stop is one of our two exercise physiology teaching labs.  Both of these labs have rowing ergometers, cycle ergometers and treadmills for practical learning. They also have technology for v02 max testing, lactate threshold and blood ph.

Jesse: [00:00:47] Now we have arrived in the biomechanics teaching lab. In our biomechanics classes, we use these computers here for interpretation of movement analysis data that has been collected in the biomechanics research lab upstairs. This room also allows for force plate demonstrations in class, and more.

Tijana: [00:01:01] We have a number of these general teaching spaces for tutorials. Most tutorials for Sport and Exercise students are held at Moore Park, while some are held at the city campus, and some online. As you can see, we have a number of flat screen TVs available for students to plug in laptops to work on group assignments during class.

Jesse: [00:01:21] The sports hall is also on this level.

Jesse: [00:01:29] This is a versatile space used for teaching, performances, events or indoor sports, such as basketball, netball and volleyball. The change rooms and showers are just outside. And as students, we can use this space when it's not being used for teaching.

Tijana: [00:01:45] Now we're in the resistance training room. This is where Sport and Exercise students get practical experience, supervising and prescribing exercise. We also learn the fundamentals of coaching and performing power and Olympic lifts.

Jesse: [00:01:57] Now let's go look at the research labs.

Alana: [00:02:04] Hi there. This is the first of the Sport and Exercise research labs. This is the exercise physiology and biochemistry research Lab. It's equipped with treadmills, a range of exercise bikes and devices that assess physiological responses to exercise.

Zoi: [00:02:21] Now let's come through to the environmental lab. So this is a special sealed room that controls temperature and humidity, and that way researchers can investigate the effects of the environmental conditions during athletic performance.

Zoi: [00:02:34] This is a biomechanics research lab.

Alana: [00:02:36] Using technology that digitises movement, researchers can measure the impact of speed and other forces placed on the body during exercise. There's a lot of high-tech equipment like the Biodex machine, which can be used to identify and document physical impairments that can be used for pre-season screening, injury prevention and performance enhancement.

Alana: [00:02:54] There are motion and force plates in the ground, which are used for gait and motion analysis, kinesiology, ergonomics, as well as sport and performance analysis. 2D and 3D motion analysis cameras digitise movement so that researchers can analyse gait, sport performance and skill performance.

Zoi: [00:03:12] So this is a skill acquisition and motor control research lab. So in here, this is a flexible space that can be used in a variety of ways in order to measure and develop perceptual-cognitive skills for high performance athletes and officials. Depending what you're using this room for, we have a running track, a vision projection wall and 3D motion analysis technology.

Zoi: [00:03:34] Head cameras and eye tracking glasses are used by researchers to understand how athletes move and interact.

Zoi: [00:03:41] This room is sometimes set up with drum kits, and that way we can test an athlete's coordination and decision making skills when on field. We in class, have in fact used these drum kits so that we can solve coordination problems.

Alana: [00:03:55] This special room is the body composition lab. In here is the dual energy X-ray or DEXA machine. It measures athletes' bone density, muscle and fat content, providing an assessment of body composition that feeds into both health and performance outcomes. Now let's head upstairs.

Tijana: [00:04:17] So we've reached the top floor. Up here and more classrooms, student meeting areas, a student lounge and kitchen.

Jesse: [00:04:25] And this is our final stop, the rooftop terrace.

Jesse: [00:04:30] Out here this open-air running track is used for practical assessment of speed and acceleration of athletes. Up here we also have expansive views of the Sydney skyline, including the UTS Tower building.

Tijana: [00:04:38] Well thanks so much for joining us on our tour. We hope you've enjoyed this insight into being a Sport and Exercise student at UTS.

Jesse: [00:04:44] We'll see you at UTS soon.