Leading the Virtual Nursing Simulation Industry
To expedite the success of your nursing learner, Sentinel U® delivers a full portfolio of healthcare simulations that reflect real-world situations faced by today’s nurses. Our gamified and animated approach to simulation development gives your learners multiple modalities where critical thinking and nursing care scenarios can be practiced repeatedly. Virtual simulations are cost-effective and convenient compared to traditional in-person clinicals and manikins. See how our virtual nursing simulations can enhance your curriculum or training programs.
Simulations by Course
Our variety of learning simulations meet the needs of different content areas. Streamline and enhance your curriculum by customizing the virtual clinicals that best compliment your course content. LEARN MORE >
Community & Population Health
Students can practice critical thinking, observation, and care planning for community and population health nursing with 3 choices of virtual simulations – Sentinel City®, Sentinel Town®, and Sentinel City® Canada. LEARN MORE >
Telehealth™ Virtual Clinicals
Learn Telehealth in a virtual healthcare setting with engaging and realistic simulations for the medical-surgical, maternal/OB, pediatric and mental/behavioral health practice areas. LEARN MORE >
Introducing Sentinel City® v.5
Explore the new and enhanced immersive simulation experience for community and population health.
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EMPOWER™ Debrief Model asynchronous debriefing builds a more confident, competent nursing staff.
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Hear From Other Nurse Educators
I look at Sentinel U’s simulations as a complement to the didactic classroom piece. We’re using some of these virtual clinical scenarios to enhance the overall learning by standardizing our clinical activities. That way students build both their clinical and critical thinking.
Dr. Connie Zak, Dean
Resurrection University College of Nursing
We get students set up, run through the first scenario in class, and they take it from there. After that, there’s not a lot of management on my end.
Valerie Wright, DNP, RN, CNE
Illinois State University Mennonite College of Nursing
The ability for the clinical faculty to customize assignments, the number of patients represented, and the fact that there is a virtual community setting convinced us to take the next step and get a demo.
Stevi Gire, MS, RN, CHSE
University of Utah College of Nursing
The simulation prompts them to support their choices with evidence-based practice research, to bring their own perspective to the situations and use critical thinking skills to make decisions in developing the patient’s plan of care.
Cynthia Carter, MSN
Georgia Highlands College
With Sentinel U®, Your Learners Can:
Research has shown that Sentinel U simulations are effective in supporting nurses in achieving required competencies. Our interactive learning experiences span areas such as pediatrics, gerontology, mental health, and community health applications.
Our products align with the Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education, QSEN Quality and Safety Competencies, NLN Core Competencies, and Quad Council Core Competencies.
Why Choose Sentinel U®?
We specialize in nursing education and virtual simulations
Sentinel U simulations are used by American Sentinel College of Nursing & Health Sciences at Post University students. Our software was born from student needs and our content continues to grow to address their needs, including constantly fresh patient interactions and updated clinical scenarios.
We make your job easier
We’re nursing educators too, so we know what it’s like to teach—and where the pain points lie. We build our content and our dashboards to make your experience as smooth as possible. Learners can rely on 24/7 support across all our virtual clinicals, meeting their needs on-demand.
We’re recognized as the best by other experts
Our population/community health simulations, Sentinel City® and Sentinel Town®, have been celebrated by nursing schools across the country as best-in-market.
Advantages of Incorporating Sentinel U® Into Your Curriculum
| In-person Clinicals | Sentinel U | |
|---|---|---|
| Skills Development | Waiting for a turn and passively watching someone else. | Practice anywhere, anytime in engaging real-world simulated environments. |
| Cost | High cost of lab space, equipment, consumables, staff, and maintenance. | No space requirements, staff, manikins, or special equipment required. |
| Convenience | In-person lab time is limited, hard to schedule and limits practice time. | Access anytime and anywhere. Provides deliberate practice. Assignments and grading rubrics provided. Large groups easily accommodated. |
| Feedback | Instructor feedback is primarily subjective. Instructors might have limited bandwidth to provide feedback for every student. | Objective, real time remediation. Performance feedback for both students and faculty provided through comprehensive dashboards. |
| Confidence | Students lack confidence when performing a procedure for the first time in a clinical or lab setting. | Students who practice with virtual nursing simulations beforehand have higher confidence when performing a new procedure in a clinical or lab setting. |
| Skills Development | |
|---|---|
| In-person Clinicals | Sentinel U |
| Waiting for a turn and passively watching someone else. | Practice anywhere, anytime in engaging real-world simulated environments. |
| Cost | |
|---|---|
| In-person Clinicals | Sentinel U |
| High cost of lab space, equipment, consumables, staff, and maintenance. | No space requirements, staff, manikins, or special equipment required. |
| Convenience | |
|---|---|
| In-person Clinicals | Sentinel U |
| In-person lab time is limited, hard to schedule and limits practice time. | Access anytime and anywhere. Provides deliberate practice. Assignments and grading rubrics provided. Large groups easily accommodated. |
| Feedback | |
|---|---|
| In-person Clinicals | Sentinel U |
| Instructor feedback is primarily subjective. Instructors might have limited bandwidth to provide feedback for every student. | Objective, real time remediation. Performance feedback for both students and faculty provided through comprehensive dashboards. |
| Confidence | |
|---|---|
| In-person Clinicals | Sentinel U |
| Students lack confidence when performing a procedure for the first time in a clinical or lab setting. | Students who practice with virtual nursing simulations beforehand have higher confidence when performing a new procedure in a clinical or lab setting. |
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