T Level Health
Introduction to T Level Health
The healthcare industry is one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. With an ageing population and constant advancements in medical technology, the demand for skilled healthcare professionals is only going to increase going forward. The T Level Health course in the UK is a two-year qualification for students aged 16-19 aiming to pursue a career in healthcare. The course covers a range of specialist subjects and provides practical work experience, making it a valuable addition to the curriculum for colleges and course providers.
What Are T Levels?
T levels are an alternative option to A levels, apprenticeships and any other courses available to people aged 16-19. One T Level is essentially equivalent to three A Levels, and can help students find their way into skilled employment, higher study and apprenticeships. There are a number of different T Level courses to choose from; 16 currently, with the aim of adding another 8 by 2024. You can read more about T Levels on the gov.uk website.
Importance of T Level Health to the Medical Industry
The T Level Health course is a two-year course that provides students with the skills and knowledge they need to pursue a career in healthcare. The course covers a range of subjects, including anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, and healthcare ethics. Students also have the opportunity to gain practical work experience through placements in healthcare settings.
The T Level Health course is an important addition to healthcare education for several reasons. Firstly, it provides students with a clear pathway into the healthcare industry. By completing the course, students have a solid foundation of knowledge and skills that are highly valued by employers in the healthcare sector. Secondly, the course is designed to meet the needs of the healthcare industry, which is currently experiencing a skills shortage. By training students in the skills and knowledge needed for the healthcare industry, the T Level Health course is helping to address this shortage.
Benefits of Providing The T Level Health Course
Offering the T Level Health course can be a valuable addition to the curriculum for colleges and course providers. Firstly, it provides students with a clear picture of how to start their medical career. Secondly, the course provides practical work experience, which is highly valued by employers in the healthcare sector. By offering practical work experience, colleges and course providers can help students to gain the skills and knowledge needed to succeed as a healthcare professional.
For colleges that offer T Level Health, there are certain products and devices that are essential to carrying out the course to its learners. There are a number of requirements and specifications that need to be met by providers to ensure that the course and its relevant assessments can be completed. It can be difficult to know exactly what equipment is needed for your college in order to carry out the course.
How We Can Help
Simulaids are a leading UK distributor for medical simulation devices, including the equipment you need to meet the T Level Health specification and deliver the course to your students. We have been supporting medical education professionals for over 20 years, as well as providing products that are great investments in terms of quality and value for money. Even better, we will price match any genuine quotes that you receive from elsewhere and include free shipping to mainland UK addresses.
Manikins For T Level Health
The T Level Health course specification states that you must have a responsive manikin, which is exactly what Simulaids ALEX is. A responsive, patient communication simulator with built-in AI and feedback.
The course also has care specialisms, which is where DANi and TERi make the ideal manikins. Despite the fact they are very similar manikins, the patient profile is totally different for both. DANi is a care manikin designed to support training for issues in young adults such as sexual assault and self harm. TERi, on the other hand, is an geriatric (elderly) manikin which prepares learners for the care of elderly patients with potential issues such as arthritis.
ALEX
ALEX Patient Communication Simulator provides all the physiological features of a full-body high fidelity human patient simulator you expect: palpable pulse points, spontaneous breathing, blood pressure measurement, high-fidelity lung/heart/bowel sounds, live CPR metrics with BVM ventilation, simulated patient monitor and 12-lead ECG, intubatable airway and more.
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DANi
DANi is an advanced training solution designed to support training on the fundamentals of nursing and EMS procedures for issues relating to drug abuse, sexual assault, mental health, or self-harm. Learners can practice on a comprehensive and complete simulation platform including patient monitoring capability and auscultation (heart and lung sounds).
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TERi
TERi™ is an androgynous geriatric patient simulator. An evolution of the original geriatric simulator, GERi™, the new TERi™ has enhanced aesthetics with soft silicone skin, simulating a lifelike look and feel.
Fully articulated limbs, but lightweight, makes ambulatory care training realistic and safe.
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Simulaids® ALEX Patient Communication Simulator
ALEX comes in three specifications, lite, plus and pro. Each spec has its own level of features and feedback options. With ALEX, you can build critical thinking, decision making and priority setting skills. ALEX can perform patient physical assessment and evaluate vitals and waveforms with a simulated patient monitor. View ALEX’s full product sheet here.
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ALEX is able to train medical students to build critical thinking and decision making, perform patient physical assessment, evaluate vitals and waveforms with simulated patient monitor, create automated performance assessment of learning objective, maintain treatment plan, practice procedures such as IV administration and catheterisation, assess advanced life support performance with CPR metrics and live stream/record patient perspective during simulated events.
DANi™ Teen & Young Adult Advanced Training Solution
DANi evolved from the full body KERi manikin and is an advanced training solution for issues including drug abuse and sexual assault for younger people. DANi is ideally suited for a hands-on learning experience in a classroom setting, perfect for the T Level Health course. DANi has a range of realistic features that learners can practice on including pupils. airway, acne, smooth skin, tattoo sleeve, piercings, wigs and foot wounds. The weight is distributed to represent a real patient for lifting and carrying.
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DANi is configurable to fit unique training requirements and budgets, available in three different configurations: Patient Care Trainer, Advanced Patient Simulator and Patient Skills Trainer.
DANi provides a realistic, hands-on learning experience ideally suited for classroom in-situ, or hospital instruction, and is targeted towards roles such as first responders, crime and sexual abuse investigators, nurses, social workers, emergency room physicians and more.
TERi™ Androgynous Geriatric Patient Trainer
TERi is ideal for simulating a range of geriatric nursing tasks including anything from activities of daily living to acute medical emergencies in both a pre-hospital and hospital setting. The main features of TERi include a passive range of motion, enhanced aesthetics, activities of daily living, injections, cardiovascular support and more.
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Want TERi to talk? Upgrade with PCS Plus – the wearable simulator that enables TERi to listen to your questions and respond using AI technology.
TERi’s three configurations:
Patient Care Trainer – general patient care, daily living assistance simulation
Patient Skills Trainer – physical skills practice simulation with IV, catheterisation, cardiovascular and raspatory support
Patient Simulator – complete simulation platform including patient monitoring
Patient Monitoring
We have a range of advanced simulation products in the form of training simulators that use the latest technology to give learners the most realistic learning experience possible.
Skillqube
Skillqube is a simulated patient monitor device, replicating the look and sounds of patient monitors without having to use a live unit device which could be used on a real patient. Having to use live unit patient monitors for training purposes has been a frustration in healthcare training for a number of years.
With Skillqube, you can choose from a range of interfaces, including Zoll, Weinmann and others. We offer a number of different packages for T Level Health as each college’s requirements are slightly different.
SkillQube
As a leading provider of preclinical training and simulations, Skillqube has played a key role in this development and offers extensive solutions and training. Skillqube Training operates the largest American Heart Association (AHA) International Training Centre (ITC) in the DACH region.
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Skillqube is available in several configurations. You can choose whether to include an iPad with the product, which is the screen that will display the data. There are also size configurations for the hardware set.
What’s included?
A qube adult cable set, qube pediatric cable set, stationary WLAN router, qubeZERO, qubeAED and two qubeCPR sensors.
Clinical Skills
Clinical skills are a staple of the T Level Health course. Clinical skills in healthcare are everyday skills that must be perfected for students to achieve their qualification and be able to use in an occupational setting. Clinical skills are used in all areas of healthcare, by nurses, surgeons, lab technicians and medical assistants in their day-to-day role. They are developed in training and through a qualification such as the T Level Health course, but continue to be developed at all stages of a healthcare professional’s career.
Clinical skills are generally divided into two main categories: hard and soft skills. Soft skills are broader, less specific skills such as patient communication, whereas hard skills refer to technical skills that are specific to a role, such as administering medication to a patient.
Blood Pressure Simulator
BT Inc blood pressure/pulse assessment simulator
Blood Pressure Simulator
Comes with tablet for assessors to monitor performance live, allowing you to see exactly what the learner does and where exactly the Korotkoff sounds are heard.
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Advanced Venepuncture
And injection arm
Advanced Venepuncture and Injection Arm
Soft, flexible fingers are moulded separately with extreme attention paid to every detail right down to the fingerprints! Flexion of the wrist helps students develop manipulation skills.
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BT Inc Male Catheter Sim
Male catheterisation simulator
BT Inc Male Catheterisation Simulator
Positioning similar to a real patient. Non-return valve prevents leaking after removal of catheter. Genital organs, buttocks and foreskins are detachable.
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Simulaids have a wide range of products that are designed to develop clinical skills in healthcare training and education, focusing on specific hard skills. You can view our full range of clinical skills products here, or take a look at some of the clinical skills products that we recommend for T Level Health above.
Basic Life Support
Whilst the higher end manikins such as those listed above are needed for the T Level Health course, basic resuscitation manikins and other devices are also essential. Resuscitation can be performed on most high-end manikins, but their main features are usually more specialist, which go further than basic resuscitation. For simple, purely resuscitation-based devices, check out the below products:
Basic Buddy® CPR Manikin
This manikin offers a realistic and affordable way to provide each student with their own CPR manikin.
Basic Buddy® Single CPR Manikin
The one-piece, disposable lung/mouth protection system makes this manikin completely sanitary – there is no risk of cross-contamination and no need to sanitise the manikins after use.
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Basic Buddy®/Baby Buddy®
Classroom Pack - Set of 5 adult/child and 5 infant manikins.
Basic Buddy®/Baby Buddy® – Classroom Pack
These manikins offer a realistic and affordable way to provide each student with their own CPR manikin. The one-piece, disposable lung/mouth protection system makes these manikins completely sanitary – there is no risk of cross-contamination and no need to sanitise the manikins after use.
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CPR Cube 2
cprcube is a hands-only CPR training device
CPR Cube Pro
Anybody can learn the most important part of CPR: Chest compression without requiring an expensive Manikin. Use the scenario cards to learn different CPR Phrases. It can be used for individual learning or under guidance during class.
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The basic buddy manikins are a great affordable option for resuscitation, leaving the more expensive, higher-fidelity manikins for more advanced practices.
The CPR Cube Pro is also a great alternative to an high-fidelity manikin, as it can connect to mobile devices and provide feedback on chest compression to ensure that learners are compressing at the correct depth and rate. It has two main sources of feedback, the first being a beeping sound that is activated at the correct compression depth as well as a metronome for a rhythm guide. The other is a LED light, which has different colours for depth, rate and recoil.
Sim Suite
Custom Headwall
Custom Headwall
We provide headwalls for college/medical school sim suites. Prices start from £995 per metre without customisation. Includes simulated gas valves, electricity and data connection and nurse call points.
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CENTURIS™ Pro
Hospital Bed
CENTURIS™ Pro
The Centuris bed meets the most recent international regulatory requirement IEC/EN 60601-2-52 concerning the basic safety and essential performance of hospital beds for adults, therefore satisfies the requirements for safety, reliability and usability.
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900 Elite
Hospital bed
Hill-Rom® 900 Elite Bed
Intuitive, ergonomic and simply efficient, the Hill-Rom 900 bed offers maximum functionality with minimal complexity, for caregivers to spend less time and energy operating equipment and more time on patient care.
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Apollo II
Dynamic mattress system
Apollo II Dynamic Replacement Mattress System
The clinically advanced Apollo II family of dynamic pressure area care surfaces have been designed to offer dual therapy modes to enhance patient care and outcomes. Developed for use in hospital, residential and home care environments
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NP150 Mattress
Prevention surface mattress
NP150 Prevention Surface
Constructed with viscoelastic ‘memory foam’, our NP150 mattress has been specially developed to help prevent pressure ulcers.
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Affinity Four
Hospital Bed
Affinity™ Four Birthing bed
The Affinity Four birthing bed delivers on the promise of a safe birthing bed that functions in the busiest environment with ease.
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Chrysalis Birthing Bed
Birthing bed
Chrysalis Birthing Bed
Chrysalis birthing beds optimise positioning for clinical staff whilst offering the most convenient delivery position for the mother.
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