Building the perfect simulation lab can be daunting. What products are needed? Can the necessary equipment fit into my budget? Where do I start?

We hear you. 

That's why Anchor Simulation is not only your simulation superstore but also helps customers navigate the complex landscape of healthcare education with ease.

We hope that this guide can help you take the next best step towards creating a simulation lab that helps develop skills for future medical professionals.

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What's New at Anchor Simulation

January was a busy month for Anchor Simulation! Highlighted by an incredible trip to San Antonio, Texas for IMSH 2026

Reconnecting with existing customers, meeting new faces, and spending time with our amazing industry partners made for an incredible experience!

Thank you to everyone who stopped by, and we hope to see you there next year!

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The Essentials

1. Beds

Anchor Simulation offers a large collection of Hospital Beds and Stretchers, the foundation for a perfect simulation lab. 

Nearly every patient interaction, assessment, medication administration, transfer, wound care, and emergency response begins at the bedside. A realistic hospital bed allows students to practice proper body mechanics, safe patient positioning, bed adjustments, and fall-prevention protocols in a setting that mirrors real healthcare facilities. When paired with manikins, monitoring equipment, and headwalls, the bed becomes the central hub of scenario-based training. Investing in quality hospital beds ensures learners don’t just practice clinical skills, but also practice them in the context where care actually happens.

With multiple options to choose from at Anchor Simulation, we can match your needs to the perfect solution for your simulation lab.

Simulation Essentials Sigma Sim360 Hospital Bed
Condition: New

The Simulation Essentials Sigma Sim360 Hospital Bed is the perfect choice for simulation lab coordinators and nursing instructors looking for a cost-effective hospital bed that mirrors what students will encounter in real clinical settings. This 5-function hospital bed offers similar features to beds used in hospitals, making it ideal for nursing schools, simulation labs, skills labs, and training environments. Its budget-friendly price point allows schools to equip their labs with high-quality, realistic equipment without compromising on essential functionality.

Hillrom VersaCare P3200 Hospital Bed
Condition: Refurbished 

The Hillrom VersaCare P3200 Medsurg Bed is engineered to support realistic, high-functioning clinical environments while prioritizing safety, efficiency, and durability. The integrated Point-of-Care® Nurse Controls streamline operation by placing essential bed adjustments directly at the caregiver’s fingertips, allowing students and staff to practice efficient bedside workflows. Complementing this, the HandsFree® Foot Pedal System enables easy height and position adjustments without compromising sterile technique or patient support during transfers.

Safety remains central with a three-mode bed exit alarm featuring alert silence, allowing educators to teach fall-prevention strategies and alarm management in real-world scenarios. The One-Button Boost® position assists caregivers in repositioning patients toward the head of the bed with minimal strain, reinforcing safe patient handling practices. SlideGuard® Technology further enhances patient stability by reducing migration and maintaining proper positioning during care.

Hillrom Centrella Medsurg Hospital Bed
Condition: Refurbished

The Hillrom Centrella Medsurg Hospital Bed is designed to enhance both patient safety and caregiver efficiency in simulation and clinical training environments. Featuring a 3-Mode Bed Exit System with silence and auto-reset, it allows instructors to teach fall-prevention protocols while demonstrating how real-time alerts function in a healthcare setting. The integrated motion-activated nightlight improves nighttime visibility and reinforces safe room navigation during low-light simulation scenarios.

For mobility training, the one-button patient stand assist supports safe patient transfers and early ambulation exercises, helping students practice proper body mechanics and mobility support techniques. Advanced SlideGuard® Technology reduces patient migration, maintaining positioning and minimizing the need for frequent repositioning—an important aspect of pressure injury prevention training.

In emergency situations, the dampened CPR release enables rapid bed flattening for resuscitation scenarios, while maintaining controlled movement for added safety. The intuitive Graphical Caregiver Interface® touchscreen simplifies operation, allowing learners to become comfortable with modern bed controls they will encounter in real healthcare facilities.

Just getting started on your simulation lab? Anchor Simulation offers bundles that pair essential bedside furniture with our hospital bed solutions, providing a fully functional and professional clinical space ideal for nursing schools, healthcare educators, simulation labs, and skills labs. Explore our Hospital Bed Bundles to get started!

2. Headwalls

Beyond realism, our Headwalls improve workflow and scenario flexibility. They create a structured, organized bedside layout that supports the integration of monitors, IV pumps, and other essential equipment. This setup reinforces proper clinical habits from checking connections and managing tubing to maintaining a safe, uncluttered environment. For programs building a new lab, investing in headwalls ensures students aren’t just learning skills in isolation, but also training within the full context of bedside care, preparing them for the environments they will enter in their professional careers.

Simulation Essentials SE42 Axis Mobile Simulation Headwall System
Condition: New

Bring realism and flexibility to your nursing simulation lab with the SE42 Axis Mobile Simulation Headwall System, a fully functional, mobile headwall solution designed for dynamic learning environments. This all-in-one system includes a rolling stand to hold the headwall and an integrated silent air compressor, making it ideal for programs that need to move from bed to bed, room to room, or can’t install permanent headwalls.

Perfect for classrooms, skills labs, or temporary training spaces, this mobile unit gives nursing students hands-on clinical experience wherever it’s needed.

3. Infusion Pumps

Infusion Pumps are essential to a well-equipped simulation lab because they allow learners to practice one of the most common and high-risk clinical tasks: medication and fluid administration. In real healthcare settings, infusion pumps are used to deliver precise amounts of IV fluids, antibiotics, vasopressors, and other critical medications. Incorporating them into simulation training ensures students develop confidence in programming rates, calculating dosages, troubleshooting alarms, and verifying safe infusion practices before working with real patients.

BD Alaris Medley IV Pump Bundle #2
Condition: Refurbished

This Alaris Medley Bundle includes the 8015 Point of Care Unit and two 8100 Pump Modules. It is designed to provide an enhanced learning experience for healthcare educators and nursing simulation programs. 

The 8015 Point of Care Unit acts as the central controller, while the dual 8100 Pump Modules enable the simultaneous administration of multiple fluids, medications, or blood products. With the included educational mock drug library based on the Medley Guardrails software, students can safely practice infusion therapy while adhering to the latest safety standards. The ability to program both primary and secondary infusions across two modules enhances the training experience. 

Check out our other Alaris Medley Bundles to find the best solution for your simulation lab!

4. Crash Carts

Crash Carts are a cornerstone of any high-quality simulation lab because they bring realism and urgency to emergency training scenarios. In real clinical environments, crash carts contain the life-saving medications, defibrillators, airway tools, and emergency supplies needed during cardiac arrest or rapid response events. Including a fully stocked crash cart in simulation training allows learners to practice locating equipment quickly, administering medications correctly, and following ACLS or emergency protocols under pressure.

Waterloo Healthcare 6-Drawer Tall Aluminum Emergency Cart
Condition: New

Constructed from advanced aluminum, this 6-Drawer Tall Emergency Cart is 30% lighter than traditional steel models, allowing for faster maneuverability and improved response time during cardiac arrest simulations or real-world emergencies. The lightweight design reduces strain on staff while maintaining the strength and durability required in demanding healthcare settings.

For enhanced workflow, dual pull-out shelves effectively double the available work surface, giving clinicians and students ample space for medication preparation, defibrillator setup, and documentation. Each drawer includes adjustable metal dividers, enabling customizable organization for emergency medications, airway supplies, IV equipment, and code response tools. A built-in transport lock secures drawers during rapid transit, ensuring contents remain safely in place while moving quickly through hallways or patient care areas.

5. Manikins & Task Trainers

Full-body Manikins allow learners to assess vital signs, perform physical exams, practice airway management, administer medications, and respond to evolving patient scenarios. This type of immersive training builds clinical judgment, confidence, and teamwork in a way that lectures alone cannot.

Task Trainers, on the other hand, focus on skill repetition and precision. From IV arms and injection pads to airway heads and catheterization models, these tools allow students to refine specific procedures until they become second nature. Repetitive, focused practice improves muscle memory, reduces anxiety, and promotes patient safety.

KERi™ Complete Nursing Skills Manikin
Condition: New

The KERi™ Nursing Skills Manikin is a versatile, full-body patient care simulator designed to support comprehensive hands-on training for simulation lab nursing students and practicing clinicians. With a non-age-specific appearance, realistic range of motion, and non-pinching joints, KERi™ moves and positions like a real person—making it ideal for repeated bedside care practice, skills validation, and competency assessments.

KERi™ supports detailed visual inspection training, including identification of normal and cancerous moles, a stage 1 sacral ulcer, dilated and constricted pupils, and reddened skin folds—helping learners develop strong assessment and documentation skills.

Designed for realistic patient care simulation, the manikin allows students to practice a wide range of nursing procedures, including bandaging and wound dressing, bed baths, clothing changes, denture placement and removal, ear and eye irrigation, hair care, perineal care, and patient transfers. Flexible, individually molded fingers and toes support detailed manipulation and bandaging exercises, while multiple intramuscular injection sites (arm, thigh, and buttock) reinforce safe medication administration techniques.

Nasco Life/Form® Portable IV Hand Trainer
Condition: New

The Life/form® Portable IV Training Hand combines realism, fine detail, and lightweight convenience in a single trainer. This self-contained trainer is packaged in a plastic case that can be converted into a workstation. The trainer includes everything you will need to begin training and practicing IV skills.

This trainer is constructed of soft material with life-like veins in the skin surface that are visible and palpable. Veins are accessible at the back of the hand, making it possible to practice venipuncture at any of the common sites. When puncturing through the vinyl skin and veins, the skin will actually roll as you palpate the veins, and the characteristic "pop" can be felt as the needle penetrates the vein.

This trainer is inexpensive enough so that each student can have their own hand at practicing techniques and skills required in their courses. Under normal use, hundreds of injections may be performed.

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Creating the right simulation lab doesn’t have to feel overwhelming. With the right guidance, the right equipment, and a clear understanding of your program’s goals, you can build a training environment that prepares students for real-world clinical care without exceeding your budget.

At Anchor Simulation, we’re committed to being more than just a supplier of medical simulation equipment. From hospital beds and manikins to crash carts, headwalls, infusion pumps, and task trainers, we help educators and program directors find practical, cost-effective solutions that fit their space, objectives, and financial constraints. Whether you’re starting from scratch or expanding an existing lab, our team is here to simplify the process.

The next step toward building a high-impact simulation lab starts with choosing the right foundation. Explore our inventory, consider your program’s priorities, and reach out to our team for support. Together, we can help you create a simulation space that develops confidence, competence, and the future of healthcare professionals.