Looking for a geriatric training manikin to help your learners develop healthcare career skills? The Geriatric Nursing Manikin can help! The manikin’s realistic joints and lifelike size offer students an authentic experience as they learn key nursing skills. Read on to explore the unique features of this hands-on learning aid.
Practice 15+ Basic Nursing Functions
This geriatric training manikin offers hands-on practice in a variety of nursing skills. It comes with interchangeable genitalia for perineal care and catheterization practice as well as removeable pressure ulcers in stages one through four. Here’s a full list of skills students can practice with this manikin:
- Oral and nasal feeding and suctioning
- Trachea care and cleaning
- Mouth cavity and artificial teeth care
- Intramuscular and intradermal injections
- Urethral catheter insertion
- Colostomy care
- Pressure ulcer evaluation and care
- Patient transfer, handling, and positioning
- Perineal care
- Eye care
- Hearing aid insertion
- Hair/scalp and face washing
- Ostomy care
- Enema insertion
- ROM exercises
- Bathing
- Dressing
- Oxygenation
Save Time with Ready-to-Use Curriculum
The included curriculum addresses basic patient care procedures and soft skills important for healthcare professionals. It features five lessons that can help teach catheterization procedures, bathing and range of motion, intramuscular injections, and pressure injuries.
Prepare Learners for Career Success
This geriatric training manikin can help prepare learners for a variety of healthcare careers, especially occupations that work directly with patients, such as certified nursing assistants, nurses, and medical assistants. The manikin can help enhance patient care simulation in nursing assistant, healthcare career exploration, and foundations classes. Watch the video below to see this manikin in action!
Explore More Resources
Looking for more resources to develop nursing skills and prepare learners for healthcare careers?
- Watch our free, on-demand webinar about tips and tools for fostering geriatric sensitivity
- Check out our free guide on helping learners develop empathy toward older adults
- Discover our free career exploration lessons