Bariatric Nursing Manikin

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Enhance students' ability to care for bariatric patients with the Bariatric Nursing Manikin, a realistic, unique training tool. Representing a 350-pound male, this manikin offers a lifelike experience that helps students prepare for the unique challenges of working with obese or bariatric patients.

With this manikin, students can practice a wide range of essential nursing skills, including range of motion exercises, perineal care, and patient transfer and lifting. The manikin also allows for training in pressure injury identification, skin assessments, blood pressure reading, and other basic patient care procedures.

Contents

• Bariatric Nursing Manikin
• Blood Pressure Simulator
• Wig
• Shorts
• Skin conditions: Pressure injury, eczema and contact dermatitis
• Quick start guide
• Downloadable Bariatric Curriculum
• 1-year limited warranty

Curriculum

Features

• Bathing
• Blood pressure
• Dressing
• Ear care
• Face washing
• Holistic nursing
• Oral care
• Patient transfer and handling
• Pendulous breasts
• Perineal care
• Pressure ulcer care and cleaning
• Range of motion exercises
• Urethral catheter insertion

• Can be used with common bariatric lifts like a Hoyer Lift
• Recognized as a “career readiness solution of the year” by the 2022 EdTech Breakthrough Awards
• Helps create an equitable classroom by allowing all students to practice caring for an obese patient as much as they feel necessary to gain confidence and competence
• Articulating limbs
• Buried penis
• Pendulous breasts
• Soft, pliable, water-resistant skin with realistic texture
• Skin folds
• Weighted pannus

FAQs

• Bariatric/obese physical appearance including skin folds
• Skin conditions including pressure injury, eczema, and dermatitis
• Weighted pannus lifts so users experience difficulty accessing genitalia for perineal care and catheterization  
• Chest features pendulous breasts with skin conditions within the folds 
• Realistic size and girth of a 350-lb male patient for basic patient care, mobility and transfer issues (actual manikin weight is roughly 100 lbs.)
• Skin is made of soft, pliable, waterproof silicone 
• Edema of the limbs
• Chest features pendulous breasts with skin conditions within the folds 

• Users are able practice blood pressure readings common with bariatric patients

• Tooth brushing can be simulated without fluids

• Ears may be irrigated using water and an irrigating syringe and cotton swabs may be used gently in the ear as you would a real patient

• Male urethral catheter insertion with real Foley and straight catheters without use of fluids

• Male perineal care practice
• Cleaning the genitalia with gentle soap and water, patting dry and avoiding cross contamination
• Weighted pannus and skin folds will ‘get in the way’ or make it more difficult but not impossible to provide perineal care as with real patients

• Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) including:
• Bathing
• Face washing
• Dressing
• Holistic nursing: sponge bath, dressing, hot and cold therapy

• Practice changing occupied beds
• Practice positioning in chairs and wheelchairs
• Practice transferring from bed to chair, assisting patients to bedside commode, assisted bedpan use, and prepping
• Manikin will allow for practice positioning a patient for surgery
• Practice of correct patient positioning and flexibility exercises
• The manikin’s articulation includes:
  • Trunk: flexibility
  • Neck: rotation, flexibility, lateral curvature
  • Shoulder/hip: adduction, abduction, rotation, flexibility
  • Elbow: flexibility
  • Knee: internal and external rotation
  • Wrist: flexibility
  • Ankle: adduction, abduction, dorsi flexion, plantar flexion

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Specifications

• Product Dimensions: 70” x 30” x 19”
• Product Weight: 105 lbs.