Virtual Reality Labs

Our Virtual Reality Labs provide students with an immersive virtual reality learning experience and a powerful way to acquire clinical judgement, communication and critical thinking skills.   

Manitoba nursing students enter virtual reality world

Helen Glass Centre for Nursing

Located on the Fort Garry campus, the facility features hospital and community simulation laboratories, distance education classrooms, computer labs and video-equipped assessment rooms.

Sim centre

Students have the chance to develop their critical thinking and skills in a risk-free environment designed to reflect real-life settings and situations. Our interactive simulation rooms include a pediatric unit, two maternity units, an adult unit, as well as a multipurpose space. We have the ability to make the simulation high fidelity by using manikins or standardized patients, or low fidelity using task trainers and role playing.

Skills lab

Our skills lab gives students the chance to understand the patient experience, practice skills in a safe environment and gain experience required for interdisciplinary teamwork.

Hospital simulation emphasizes teamwork

(CAre) Lab

The interactive CAregiver Communication Research Environment (CAre) Lab at the Grace General Hospital focuses on enhancing students’ and clinicians’ empathic communication skills with patients, families and caregivers.

Dr. Margaret Elder Hart Heritage Room

This commemorative space is named in honour of Dr. Margaret Elder Hart, past director of the UM School of Nursing (1948-1972). It bears her name in recognition of her contribution to nursing education and her lifelong interest in nursing history.