SPACE
Skills Practice and Care Enhancement
SPACE is an innovative practice area all students can access outside of lecture time to use equipment and resources to practise a wide range of skills in a safe, welcoming and supportive environment.
It provides students with a creative learning environment to get an excellent educational experience before becoming a health care professional.
There are over 100 skills procedures students can use to practise at their own pace in preparation for assessment or placement. SPACE is tailored to meet the health practice needs of all students across the faculty.
Within SPACE there are practical workstations and labelled trays containing various consumables and equipment. There are a variety of manikins and a ward area, complete with a hospital bed and cot. Additionally, there is a Dementia friendly ward and resource area, and a home environment/consultation space.
Students in SPACE have access to state of the art equipment including Sim Man, Paediatric Hal, iSimulate and resources including a range of anatomical models, posters and an articulated skeleton.
Skills that can be practised include:
- Blood pressure
- Injection technique
- Catheterisation
- Observations and assessments
- Urinalysis
- Passing a naso gastric tube
- Aseptic non-touch technique
- Basic and advanced life support
- Intubation
- Intravenous cannulation
- Abdominal examination
- Mechanisms of labour
- Breech birth and Shoulder Dystocia
- Gloving and gowning
- Surgical instrumentation
- Dysphagia swallowing screen and many more.
Who are the SPACE team?
We are a small team of technicians and specialists. Meet the team.
How to book
Further information, including how to book, can be found on our SPACE Moodle page.
We are open Monday - Friday 10am - 4pm, on Harborne Road.
