Simulation hospital SKY

Created 12.11.2024
Last Updated: 13.11.2024


The simulation hospital SKY (Simulation and development environment) is a multidisciplinary and open learning environment located on the Kemi campus of AMK in Lapland. SKY offers a modern framework especially for teaching, training and professional development in healthcare. In the simulation hospital, you can practice practically and safely situations that would otherwise be challenging to implement realistically—for example, demanding emergency situations and the management of dangerous situations.

The simulation hospital includes a variety of authentic hospital and treatment environments, such as wards, a medical room, an operating room and a monitoring ward. In these facilities, authentic work environments are simulated, where students, work communities and professionals from various fields can practice and develop their skills.

The facilities can be used by both students and various organizations that are looking for a realistic and versatile learning and training environment. In addition, SKY acts as an experiment, exhibition and testing environment for wellness companies and product developers, enabling the development of new solutions and products in a practical environment.

The simulation hospital has been used for their training needs by, among others, the Länsi-Pohja hospital district’s surgery and anesthesia department and Lapha’s primary care staff, using the facilities to deepen their professional skills and practice safe operating models.

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Simulation learning

The versatile facilities and equipment of the SKY Simulation Hospital enable various learning situations and practical testing:

– Patient simulators
– Acting patients
– Virtual reality methods
– Tools for practicing skills
– Computer-based simulations
– New wellness technology devices and applications

R&D activity

In addition to teaching, another basic task of our university of applied sciences is to promote the development of Lapland and our society through research, development and innovation (TKI). That’s why we at SKY are also involved in several different projects in cooperation with working life and partners.

R&D activities combine the multidisciplinary expertise of the Lapland University of Applied Sciences and modern learning environments with the needs of partners and society. In R&D work, the students’ fresh and creative ideas meet, the teachers’ top expertise in their field, and the project professionals’ years of experience in national and international funding opportunities.

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Services for companies

We offer custom trainings and other services to develop the skills and well-being of work communities. In addition to ready-made services, we tailor trainings, simulations and work and skills workshops in various subject areas to suit our customers’ needs.

You can find more information about training in the health sector on the personnel training page.

Services for companies and communities

Sky facilites

The operating room is made to imitate a real operating room. The space contains the same equipment as in a real operating room, for example an anesthesia machine, a fluid heater, an operating table with additional parts, as well as the most common operating equipment and drape sets. A simulator is always available in the operating room.

The operating room also has IT readiness for video recording and remote control.

The control department imitates intensive care, trauma, emergency room, first aid and recovery rooms. The facility has three beds and, as a rule, 2-3 simulators available. The department has the most common equipment, such as syringe pumps, defibrillators, patient monitors, heaters, etc.

The surveillance department has IT readiness for video recording and remote control.

The bed ward imitates most wards where patients are treated after various procedures. In the bed ward, you can find the most common equipment belonging to ward care, such as patient monitors and care supplies.

In the bed ward there are 5 patient places and basic mannequins with which to practice e.g. cannulations. In the facility, you can also practice taking the right ECG and receiving a patient.

The facility is IT ready, but no remote monitoring is possible.

The children’s ward imitates the children’s ward for children under 16 years of age. The facilities treat all pediatric patients who need further treatment. The facility has the necessary equipment for ward care, such as feeding pumps, patient monitor, baby scale, etc. There are two simulators in the farm; baby and junior.

The facility is IT ready, but no remote monitoring is possible.

The medicine room imitates the medicine room of a hospital. The medicine room has the possibility of preparing antibiotics, a medicine distribution cabinet, the possibility of learning fluid therapy, and the possibility of taking various samples such as CRP and Hb measurement. The medicinal preparations in the medicine room are DEMO preparations.
Instructor unit enables simulation situations in two directions, to the operating room and the monitoring department. In the instructor unit, the operator has the opportunity to control the simulation mannequin as desired and the progress of the simulation directly through the window and from the cameras’ large screen. The instructor unit has pilot computers, headphones and monitoring screens.

The space can be used as a teaching space, but also as a monitoring space in simulation situations. The space can be used for debriefing discussions.

The facility is IT ready and has two large screens.

Take a virtual tour of the Sky facilities