Skills laboratory prepares nursing students for their clinical placement and helps them to practice a scenario using the nursing skills countered in their workplace environment. It is described as a practice room, equipped with training facilities offering students in the medical field a safe environment to practice their clinical skills before the actual application.

It is not through theory alone that the student will develop the plausible characteristics of a competent nurse. That is why clinical competencies require integrating theory and practice of a real-life scenario honed in the skills laboratory.

Building a mental model for a particular nursing situation create a smooth transition; thus, laboratory exercises and activities are needed to boost nursing student confidence in working with the actual patient. Confidence in performing nursing care is significantly affected by the nursing student’s prior knowledge of what he will do and how he will do it. Also, hands-on learning and experience before the actual patient care should take place to acquire such skills. The skills laboratory plays an integral part in overcoming nursing students’ fear and anxieties of performing a nursing procedure. Hence this confidence in handling patients may be developed through learning and constant practice in the skill laboratory.