The Clinical Skills Centre at Deakin University consists of purpose built laboratories and simulated hospital environments. The centres are situated on each of the university campuses and are well resourced with state of the art equipment to aid students in their clinical learning and their transition towards independent nursing practice.

The clinical laboratories (labs) are flexible learning spaces which provide a realistic environment for students to develop core clinical nursing skills. Each laboratory has bed spaces, hand basins, wall oxygen and suction outlets. Students learn and practice skills in these laboratories at each stage of their nursing degree, developing more complex care skills as they progress. Well resourced with disposable dressing packs, injection equipment, monitoring equipment and other materials, the labs provide a safe, supportive and realistic environment. The students may practice some skills with a learning partner as patient but they also have access to high technology mannequins, lifting machines, resuscitation trolleys, infusion pumps, patient monitors and the wide range of the equipment they will encounter on clinical placement.

Clinical laboratories are equipped with an internet connected computer workstation to enable access to web based resources, including library, online journal and pharmacology resources and the viewing of educational DVDs. This ensures all students have exposure to core materials to enable individual classes to work within a common framework.

Students may book a clinical laboratory to further practise the skills they are learning in timetabled classes. This reinforces knowledge and preparation for practice.