Laboratory

• Our Fundamentals of Nursing lab is well ventilated, well furnished and set up like a real hospital ward.
• It has hospital beds, bedside lockers, over-bed tables, wheelchairs, stretchers and a fully equipped nursing station.
• Life-size manikins — adult, child and advanced patient-care simulators — let students practise procedures safely before working with real patients.
• Instruments and articles include BP apparatus, thermometers, stethoscopes, catheterisation sets, dressing trolleys, Ryle's tubes, injection trays and oxygen equipment.

Basic Nursing Procedures

• Demonstration of hand washing, gloving and gowning
• Practice of bed making — open, closed, occupied and post-operative beds
• Monitoring of vital signs — temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure
• Positioning and safe patient transfer techniques
• Personal hygiene care: bed bath, oral care and back care

Clinical Skills Practice

• Administration of oral, intramuscular, subcutaneous and IV medication on simulators
• Urinary catheterisation and catheter care
• Nasogastric tube insertion and feeding
• Wound dressing and bandaging techniques
• Oxygen administration and nebulisation

• Our Maternal and Child Health (MCH) lab is well ventilated, well furnished and well equipped.
• It has manikins such as a newborn baby, a CPR child manikin and a childbirth simulator for foetus delivery.
• Models show stages of embryo development, foetal presentations (foot, face, brow), growth of the womb in pregnancy, placenta praevia and stages of labour.
• Instruments include Cusco's speculum, Sims' vaginal speculum, cord-cutting scissors, pelvimeter, uterine sound, ovum forceps and foetoscope.

Additional Practical Activities

• Demonstration of hand washing and surgical asepsis techniques
• Preparation of labour room (delivery room) set-up
• Monitoring of vital signs of antenatal and postnatal mothers
• Demonstration of abdominal palpation (Leopold's manoeuvres)
• Assessment of foetal heart rate (FHR) using Doppler / foetoscope
• Observation and recording of partograph during labour
• Demonstration of episiotomy suturing (simulation / model)
• Care and monitoring of high-risk pregnancy cases

Postnatal & Newborn Care Activities

• Assessment of postnatal mother (uterine involution, lochia, breast condition)
• Demonstration of breastfeeding techniques and positioning
• Counselling mothers on exclusive breastfeeding
• Newborn assessment — APGAR score, weight and temperature
• Newborn resuscitation on simulator
• Demonstration of cord care and baby bath

• Our Nutrition lab is a fully equipped kitchen lab with cooking stations, utensils, weighing scales and a refrigerator.
• It has food models, charts on balanced diet and nutrients, and display of locally available foods.
• Students learn to plan and prepare normal and therapeutic diets for patients of all ages.

Practical Activities

• Planning of balanced diet for different age groups
• Preparation of therapeutic diets — diabetic, low-salt, high-protein, liquid and soft diets
• Preparation of infant and weaning foods
• Demonstration of food hygiene and safe cooking
• Nutrition education for mothers and families