Preparing nurses for safe clinical practice

Nursing programs are challenged with preparing new nurses for today’s hospital environment and sicker patients, even as access to clinical hours has diminished. Simulation can help fill the gap by delivering consistent training and helping learners to develop critical thinking skills.  Introducing CAE Juno, CAE Healthcare’s clinical skills manikin and newest offering for nursing programs. Juno is a modern manikin that was designed to meet educational requirements for clinical nursing skills, from task training through advanced patient care scenarios.

Key Features 

Articulation

• Realistic articulation

• Range of motion in hips, knees, ankles, shoulders, elbows and wrist

• Cervical motion for practice of patient stabilization

Airway

• Oral and dental hygiene

• Nasal packing

• Bag-valve-mask (BVM) ventilation

• Nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal airway placement

• Endotracheal tube placement

• Tracheostomy tube placement

• Endotracheal tube and tracheostomy tube suctioning with fluids

Breathing

• Manual bilateral chest rise and fall with BVM ventilation via face mask, endotracheal tube and tracheostomy tube

• Bilateral chest tube insertion for care and maintenance

Cardiac (Live/Complete)

• Defibrillation and cardioversion via software

• 4-lead ECG monitoring with real equipment

• 12-lead dynamic ECG display

Circulation

• Unilateral blood pressure measurement by auscultation and palpation

• Bilateral carotid pulses (manual)

• Unilateral radial and brachial pulses with programmable intensities (Live/Complete)

• Unilateral subclavian catheter insertion for care and maintenance

Gastric

• Nasogastric tube insertion and gastric lavage and gavage with real fluids

• Ostomy care and irrigation of a variety of configurable stomas

• Enema administration with fluids

Medication Administration

• Eye and ear irrigation

• Six intramuscular sites for medication administration in bilateral deltoids, bilateral vastus lateralis, ventrogluteal and dorsogluteal sites

Urinary

• Urinary catheterization with fluids

• Interchangeable genitalia

Vascular Access

• Unilateral IV cannulation at antecubital and dorsum of hand

 • Fluid and medication administration

• Blood draw with vacuum sealed blood collection system Sounds (Live/Complete)

• Auscultation of normal and abnormal heart, lung and bowel sounds

• Prerecorded speech and vocal sounds

• Bidirectional audio communication between manikin and operator