Based in Saugerties, NY, and Fort Atkinson, WI, Nasco Healthcare provides a wide range of innovative and affordable healthcare simulation products to healthcare professionals worldwide. The company was started in 1941 by Norman Eckley, an agricultural teacher who developed educational tools from his farm. Eighty years later, Nasco Healthcare now has the largest range of healthcare simulation solutions in the world with over 6,000 rugged, reliable, and realistic products. Their mission is to prepare frontline healthcare workers to Be READY.
Ready to answer the call.
Ready to make split-second decisions.
Ready to deliver when it counts.
Ready for any situation.
Ready to save lives.
The company works to meet the ever-changing needs of frontline healthcare workers by offering a comprehensive portfolio of simulation products that fulfill a broad range of low and high-fidelity requirements, including virtual patients and artificial intelligence (AI). The company’s top products include:
Nasco Medication and Patient Care Supplies
Nasco provides innovative solutions to classroom needs. Nasco sells types of scenario-building Simulated Medication solutions. Including variations of the Demo Dose, a chemotherapy pharmacy kit, chemo spill kit, chemo sterile powder-free nitrile gloves, fluid supply bags and more, Nasco aims to continuously offer the newest products on the market. The company provides the ability to filter Simulated Medication tools by features such as price, assembly required, dishwasher safety, non-toxicity, mobility, warranty, being PFOA / Phthalate-free, etc.
Nasco’s Simulators to Improve Patient Care
The company works to meet the ever-changing needs of frontline healthcare workers by offering a comprehensive portfolio of simulation products that fulfill a broad range of low and high-fidelity requirements, including virtual patients and artificial intelligence (AI). Here are some of the company’s top products.
Casualty Care Rescue Randy, is an affordable, rugged, field-deployable, full-body manikin designed for enhanced realistic training on TECC procedures, powered by Strategic Operations Hyper-Realistic technology. The Casualty Care Rescue Randy is designed for use by civilian EMS, EMT, Law Enforcement, and other civilian and military medical first responders.This full-body manikin for realistic training in treating the three most preventable causes of death: massive bleeding, tension pneumothorax, and airway obstruction.
Nasco addresses AI’s incorporation into manikin-based simulation with the twins ALEX and AXEL. Both are ideal untethered/stand-alone simulators to train nurses, medical students, and patient care personnel anywhere. Both ALEX and AXEL are available in light and medium skin tones. A control center is not required to use the simulators to provide learners with the opportunity to:
- Build critical thinking, decision-making & priority-setting skills
- Perform patient physical assessment
- Evaluate vitals and waveforms with a simulated patient monitor
- Create automated performance assessment of learning objectives
- Maintain treatment plan with customizable labs and medical orders
- Practice procedures such as I.V. administration, catheterization, and airway management
- Assess advanced life support performance with CPR Metrics
- Live stream and/or record patient perspective during simulated events
DANi Manikin
During IMSH 2023, Peter Marotta, Senior Clinical Simulation Educator at Nasco Healthcare, introduced “Dani, a manikin available in multiple skin tones which can cover an age range from 17 to 35, which provides clinical educators the opportunity to teach sexual abuse, drug addiction on top of standard manikin training features like CPR, blood pressures, auscultations, and more”.
DANi Teen & Young Adult Advanced Simulation Training Platform in 2023. DANi addresses the gap between pediatric manikin and middle-aged manikin. With DANi, Nasco Healthcare introduced the first-to-market teenage simulation training platform. DANi allows healthcare workers, crime and sexual abuse investigators, and social workers to Be READY for teen patients who need their care. DANi has the new generation simulation training platform with add-ons to simulate scenarios experienced by at-risk youth, such as drug abuse, sexual assault, and self-harm. The lifelike realism of DANi helps first responders and emergency department professionals to Be READY to provide care to teens and young adults.
Other Nasco Simulators and Trainers
- Child CRISis: Represents the size of a 5-year-old child to provide realistic training on CPR, suctioning, and airway management on a young patient.
- CPR Trainers: An advanced, affordable manikin designed to enable accurate, effective CPR training. These trainers can be used to train anyone to administer proper CPR techniques. Compliant with current American Heart Association guidelines. Key features include real-time feedback on compressions/ventilations with the Heartisense app, student and instructor apps, reference points for hand placement and compression, simulation of an obstructed airway, and visible chest rise when ventilated.
- C.H.A.R.L.I.E. Neonatal Resuscitation Simulator with Interactive ECG Simulator: the C.H.A.R.L.I.E. line of neonatal resuscitation simulators are full-body newborn simulators for neonatal care training. These manikins were developed in conjunction with the latest Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Guidelines. Key features include the ability to deliver a defibrillation shock through the manikin or simulator and connect the defibrillator/external pacer to the simulator using adapters.
- Neo Nate Neonatal Resuscitation Trainer: Neo Nate is a full-body, lifelike neonatal trainer designed for the instruction of basic care and lifesaving skills in the moments immediately after birth.
- Lucy Birth Simulator: Lucy has a new fetal monitor system, a mainstay for OB delivery training, is giving educators the capacity to do emergency care on the mother and the delivery of the fetus, and all in an easy to manage lightweight system.
- Teri Androgynous Geriatric Care Trainer: a comprehensive elderly patient care trainer with a highly realistic look and feel that accurately represents the human anatomy.
IV Arm and Task Trainers: These simulation products contain multiple venous structures to enable training on multiple types of punctures using a variety of injections and access sites.
MVR-Nursing Virtual Simulator
Available from Nasco Healthcare, the MVR-Nursing virtual simulator allows learners to interact with virtual patients and receive real-time feedback on their performance. The use of virtual reality (VR) in medical simulation has become an increasingly important tool in modern healthcare education. VR enables learners to enhance their critical thinking skills in preparation for real-life situations through immersive environments that can replicate real-world medical scenarios with incredible realism. For healthcare learners, this means the ability to practice medical procedures and sharpen their decision-making skills in a safe, controlled setting without risking potential harm to real patients. An error made in a virtual scenario can serve as an invaluable learning experience.
MVR-Nursing offers an impressive immersive experience with over 100 interactive items that include medical instruments, equipment, and consumables. MVR-Nursing provides haptic feedback that replicates the sensation of actual instruments which allows learners to perform simulated procedures in a way that feels realistic.
MVR-Nursing features a comprehensive collection of clinical cases that includes overviews of emergency care, ICU management, medical care, and pediatric care. Learners can effectively practice important skills such as CPR, airway management, defibrillation, ECG interpretation, medication administration, and more that ultimately improves their readiness for real-world clinical practice.
More About NASCO Healthcare
Guided by a deep heritage in education, Nasco Healthcare has made these products both affordable and accessible in order to prepare healthcare heroes worldwide for critical, in-the-moment decisions when lives are at stake.
Nasco Healthcare is passionate about developing training solutions that reflect diversity as racial and ethnic minorities tend to receive lower-quality access to healthcare. The company strongly believes that diversity in simulation helps ensure that healthcare workers are both knowledgeable and caring about the communities they will work in. This includes incorporating different skin tones into their products that reflect the unique populations that healthcare workers serve.
As an ISO 9001 certified organization, every Nasco Healthcare product is reliable, life-like, designed in the United States, compliant with healthcare regulations, and covered by up to a 5-year warranty. Plus, easily upgradeable and replaceable parts mean you can have a Nasco Healthcare product for life. Eighty years after Norman Eckley’s modest start, Nasco Healthcare continues to passionately serve the needs of healthcare professionals worldwide so they can Be READY.
