The College of Nursing has been providing opportunities for students to practice skills since the early 1960’s in various degrees of task training and simulation. In 2015, the Clinical Simulation and Learning Center (CSLC) was formally established in order to provide students with some of the best possible real-world training simulations in the country.
The CSLC is accredited by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare and has four full-time faculty and one is a Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator
Some examples of the College's ongoing commitment to improving the student practice opportunities include: (1) Eight classrooms and six exam/competency rooms and two debrief rooms dedicated to simulation; (2) three, fully-equipped simulation suites constructed in partnership with UK HealthCare with one opening in spring 2025; (3) a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) simulated room added in 2016 through a partnership with Kentucky Children's Hospital.