UCC’s School of Nursing becomes an Oncology Day Service. Our Clinical skills and simulation centre @UCCCSSRC is normally busy facilitating student learning. However over the last few weeks UCC and the HSE have worked together to enable the provision of onsite clinical services.

This initiative will help patients with cancer to continue their treatment, while at the same time avoiding hospitals during this COVID-19 crisis.
The School of Nursing facilities are capable of supporting up to forty patients to receive their treatments at any one time.

The simulated wards contain all the equipment you would ordinarily find in any hospital environment. The centre is used to facilitate the training of undergraduate and postgraduate students including those undertaking general, paeds, midwifery, mental health and ID nursing

Over the weekend, staff from the @Mercycork ably assisted by @defenceforces personnel moved the equipment onto the Brookfield Health Sciences Complex site. On Monday 6th April the first patients received their chemo onsite in @UCC supported by their usual nurses & doctors.

Every year hundreds of students use these resources to rehearse essential skills in a safe supportive environment- fundamental skills such as hand washing to advanced skills for acutely unwell and deteriorating patients. For a virtual tour click here https://youtu.be/KpTnHzV7vQI ">https://youtu.be/KpTnHzV7v...

Head of School Prof Josephine Hegarty: “UCC is delighted to support the HSE at this difficult time & the use of the facility to support patients with cancer to receive their chemotherapy is a fantastic use of the School of Nursing and Midwifery’s teaching and learning facilities"