Our Facilities
Designed to enhance the learning experience and promote student success, the facilities at Bloomberg Nursing provide valuable resources to nursing students at every stage of their degrees.
The Simulation Lab provides students with an innovative nursing education and prepares them to lead as health care providers.
The Bloomberg Nursing Simulation Lab (Sim Lab) is a state-of-the art facility, designed to improve access to controlled primary, acute care, and community health settings. This hands-on clinical environment provides flexible learning opportunities and prepares students to lead through innovation, creativity, compassion and critical inquiry.
Watch our Sim Lab Tour
This 4,000 square foot space is equipped with:
- an inpatient ward with twelve beds and a large nursing station
- a critical care unit with four patient beds
- the Bluma Appel Isolation Room, an isolation room with an ante- and exit room
- a full operating room
- a one-bed post-anaesthesia care unit
- a home care setting living space, that also works as an interview or ambulatory clinic room.
In the Sim Lab, students can study, practice and repeat techniques as often as necessary in order to fine-tune their skills and optimize clinical outcomes. This allows them to build their confidence and competence before using those skills in the field.
Through the support and expertise of clinical instructors, students learn both the technical skills required but also experiential learned skills, like teamwork, critical thinking, decision making and prioritization.
The Sim Lab is one of the most important spaces within our Faculty, with each and every one of our close to 500 undergraduate and nurse practitioner students making use of the lab.
When nurses graduate from Bloomberg Nursing, we are proud to say that they are both confident and competent; our Sim Lab and its simulators play a significant role in this achievement.
Interested in renting our Sim Lab facilities?
For a detailed map of the Simulation lab, see Sim Lab Floor Plan 2022 – [PDF].
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For general question or rental and booking enquires, please contact:
Chris Bergeron
Clinical Simulation Laboratory Coordinator
EmailThe Bloomberg Nursing Simulation Lab facility is available for rent on a recurrent basis (weekly/monthly), as well as for intermittent and one-time events. Located on College Street just west of University Avenue, our conveniently located state-of-the-art 4,000 square foot space is equipped with:
- an inpatient ward with eleven beds and a large nursing station
- a critical care unit with four patient beds
- the Bluma Appel Isolation Room, an isolation room with an ante- and exit room
- a home care setting living space, with accessible washroom and living space
- An interview or ambulatory clinic room
- pan-tilted zoom cameras and hanging microphones throughout the facility.
The Sim Lab can be used for a rich array of activities, including:
- Research studies requiring a simulated hospital
- Health-care equipment trials and demonstrations
- Media photo shoots
- Television & movie filming
- Hospital orientations
- Performance evaluations
- Mock codes
- Critical care education courses
- Implementation of research protocols
- Development and testing of instructional DVDs or film
- Clinical skill refresher courses requiring simulation
Organizations and groups both within and outside of the University of Toronto community are welcome to book the space.
Take a virtual photo tour of our Sim Lab.
For facility rental inquiries, please contact:
Chris Bergeron
Clinical Simulation Laboratory Coordinator
Email- Creating and editing educational content such as screen recordings, lectures, or annotated talks.
- Recording interviews, podcasts, and editing other audio content.
- Creating marketing material or knowledge translation for research projects
- Hosting webinars or online classes
- Livestreaming to YouTube or Facebook Live
- an inpatient ward with twelve beds and a large nursing station
- a critical care unit with four patient beds
- the Bluma Appel Isolation Room, an isolation room with an ante- and exit room
- a full operating room
- a one-bed post-anaesthesia care unit
- a home care setting living space, that also works as an interview or ambulatory clinic room
- pan-tilted zoom cameras and hanging microphones throughout the facility.
- Research studies requiring a simulated hospital
- Health-care equipment trials and demonstrations
- Media photo shoots
- Television & movie filming
- Hospital orientations
- Performance evaluations
- Mock codes
- Critical care education courses
- Implementation of research protocols
- Development and testing of instructional DVDs or film
- Clinical skill refresher courses requiring simulation
6th Floor Lecture Hall
Located in room 610 of the Health Sciences Building, this spacious hall can seat 250 comfortably. The layout ensures a clear vantage point for both professors and students. The room also boasts a floor-to-ceiling screen for presentations viewable from any seat in the hall.
Multimedia Room 270
The Faculty of Nursing takes learning and lectures to a new level with this multimedia classroom. Equipped with two flat screens for multiple viewing, teleconferencing and video, faculty have numerous communications resources to enhance the learning experience for students. Lectures are recorded so they are available for online viewing, a benefit to the virtual class environment in the Nurse Practitioner programs. In addition, guest speakers from around the world have been hosted, via webcast, to provide their insight and expertise to students and faculty.
Nursing Simulation Lab
Recording Room
The Faculty of Nursing’s Recording and Editing Suite is a sound-dampened space outfitted with the equipment needed to create and edit multimedia content. The space is bookable through IT and after an orientation is meant to be easy to use without extensive setup or training. The room has a full suite of software and is equipped with LED lights, a microphone, a high definition webcam, a green screen, a Wacom tablet, and a range of multimedia production software. Typical uses of the space include:
Rental Opportunities
The Bloomberg Nursing Simulation Lab facility is available for rent on a recurrent basis (weekly/monthly), as well as for intermittent and one-time events. Located on College Street just west of University Avenue, our conveniently located state-of-the-art 4,000 square foot space is equipped with:
The Sim Lab can be used for a rich array of activities, including:
Organizations and groups both within and outside of the University of Toronto community are welcome to book the space.
For facility rental inquiries, please contact Chris Bergeron at lab.nursing@utoronto.ca
Student Lounge
Designed as a space for students to take a moment and pause during a hectic day, meet with their peers, grab a snack, or participate in student government, Bloomberg Nursing opened its new student lounge in summer 2015. Located on the third floor of the Health Sciences Building, this brand-new space features sweeping views over College Street and the Lassonde Mining Building across the way. A large kitchen, vending machines, and flexible seating arrangements are dedicated spaces for students to relax and work in. Wireless print stations are installed here, allowing students to print from anywhere in the lounge on their own laptops. The space can be divided into three independent zones, offering opportunities for a seminar or presentation in one section while a yoga class happens in another.
Here you will also find the offices of the Nursing Undergraduate Society (NUS) and Graduate Nurses’ Student Society (GNSS), and flexible meeting rooms to accommodate various student groups. All of this is controlled by the students, for students.
It’s your space.