A Skills laboratory (SL) has been set up with the purpose of meeting the teaching-learning needs of student nurses in the clinical seting.

The SL is made up of 12 stations which are compulsory for student competency in their clinical practices and other important nursing procedures taught in each semester of their training. These procedures would enable students to provide total patient care to individual patients.

The objectives of the SL are to :

• Ensure the integration between theory, principles and practice. 

• Facilitate learning in the student on nursing procedures before they are send out to the actual clinical practice setting. 

• Embrace the cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains to determine competence for clinical practice in the real clinical situation. 

• Enhance students to think critically and identify ways to solve problems in the clinical world. 

• Stimulate students to analyze what reflective practice means to them.