The Deteriorating Patient
Trending obs hide a patient slipping towards an arrest call. Can students spot the trajectory and escalate before the score does it for them?
NEWS2 · escalation & SBAR
Realistic on purpose.
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It looks like hospital software, deliberately.
The toolbars, the tabs, even the beige: WardLab is modelled on the EPRs students meet on placement, so what they practise is what they'll use. The realism is the educational point.
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Scoring that pushes back.
NEWS2 for adults and age-banded PEWS for children, calculated live from the obs students enter, with the escalation guidance the real charts give. Wrong numbers have visible consequences.
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An eMAR that won't catch it for them.
A full eMAR with the drug chart, allergies and the six rights, but no contraindication warning. Give a drug the patient is allergic to and they find out the way they would in practice: afterwards, in the debrief.
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Every action becomes debrief evidence.
Obs, medications, fluid balance, notes, referrals and SBAR, all timestamped into a per-student report. Students keep their copy for their portfolio; you debrief from the record, not from memory.
Teach it on Tuesday.
Sixteen ready-to-run scenarios, each one click from a configured ward, with patients, histories, drug charts and blood results already in place. Nothing to set up, nothing to reset.
Sepsis Six
From "she's just not herself" to a completed bundle inside the hour. Recognition, escalation and the documentation that proves it happened.
NEWS2 · sepsis screening
Bronchiolitis Season
A winter ward of infants where "normal" depends on age. Respiratory assessment, age-banded observations and knowing which baby to worry about.
PEWS · infant assessment
Paediatric Sepsis
A febrile child whose numbers look almost reassuring, until they're scored against the right age band. PEWS as a safety net, not a form.
PEWS · deterioration
Diagnostic Overshadowing
Physically unwell patients whose symptoms are being read as psychiatric. The vital signs tell a different story, if anyone takes them.
NEWS2 · parity of esteem
End of Life & ReSPECT
DNACPR forms, anticipatory medicines and the care that continues when treatment stops. Reading a ReSPECT form before the moment it matters.
Care planning · documentation
…plus ten more, from night-shift prioritisation and safeguarding to self-harm presentations in A&E. All sixteen are included in the demo.
A sim session, start to finish.
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Create a session
Pick a scenario and put the join code on the projector. The ward is configured before the students sit down.
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Students join on their own phones
No installs, no computer lab, no accounts to hand out. Students verify and they're on the ward in under a minute.
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Debrief from the evidence
Every student's documentation arrives as a report: theirs to download for their portfolio, yours for thirty days to run the debrief.
Licensed per student. Priced for your cohort.
WardLab is licensed per student, so you pay for the cohorts that actually use it, never a blanket institutional fee. Priced for nursing departments and quoted individually. We'll gladly work through your procurement, DPIA and accessibility paperwork.
- Priced per studentYou license the students on the modules that use WardLab. Each one gets unlimited sessions, scenarios and resits.
- UK/EU data hostingStudent data stays in the UK or EU, encrypted in transit and at rest.
- Data-minimised by designWe hold a name and a university email, nothing else. Every patient is fictional.
- Accessibility as standardBuilt to WCAG 2.2 AA, because public-sector procurement should never have to ask twice.
- 30-day report retentionReports auto-delete on a fixed clock; students download their own copies to keep.
- Domain-restricted accessAccess is tied to your institution and ends when the licence does.
Why WardLab exists
Most nursing students meet a hospital EPR for the first time on placement, with real patients, at the worst possible moment to be learning where the buttons are. Nursing education rehearses everything else: injections on pads, resus on mannequins. But documentation, the thing nurses do every working hour of their career, students still learn hands-on, in real practice environments.
WardLab was built to close that gap: a ward that behaves like a ward, where a missed allergy or an unescalated score is a debrief conversation instead of a Datix. Students should make their first documentation mistakes somewhere those mistakes can't reach a patient.
We are the WardLab team, a small group of experienced adult nurses who lived through the shift from paper documentation to electronic patient records. We know how steep that first day on a real system can be. Our aim is simple: to make that first placement feel familiar, so students arrive ready to document with confidence instead of learning the system under pressure.
The WardLab Team
See everything. Keep it for 24 hours.
Tell us where you teach and we'll send a private link to the complete product (every ward, every patient, all sixteen scenarios), live for 24 hours. Nothing to install, no accounts to create, no sales call required.
- The full EPR, exactly as students would use it
- Works on your phone, exactly where your students will
- We reply within one working day