Sentinel ARC™:
Health Assessment
Build the Clinical Thinking Behind Every Assessment
Help nursing students build stronger assessment and clinical reasoning skills while giving educators greater visibility into learner performance.
- 10 Key Body Systems
- Discovery and Application Learning Modes
- Individual and Cohort Performance Insights
Sentinel ARC™: Health Assessment immerses nursing students in realistic learning experiences that progress from focused body-system assessment to comprehensive head-to-toe evaluation. Learners explore anatomy, assess clinical environments, engage in AI-driven patient conversations, perform interactive physical examinations, and document findings as they prepare for real-world patient care.
The Framework
Sentinel ARC: Health Assessment is built on the ARC framework, guiding learners through Assessment, Reasoning, and Clinical Decision Making as they prepare, practice, and reflect on their approach to patient assessment and clinical decision-making.
PREPARE
Prebriefing introduces expectations, learning objectives, and the plan for success, helping learners approach each experience with purpose.
PRACTICE
Purposefully designed experiences challenge learners to apply foundational knowledge while assessing realistic patient scenarios.
REFLECT
Debriefing, including guided reflection and feedback, helps learners make meaning from the experience, recognize areas for growth, and identify next steps.
Develop Clinical Assessment Skills
Build foundational assessment skills across 10 key body systems before bringing that knowledge together in a comprehensive head-to-toe assessment.
Sentinel ARC: Health Assessment provides three structured experiences designed to help learners build assessment skills across body systems, apply foundational knowledge, and integrate those skills into a comprehensive approach to patient assessment.
Core Systems
Establish baseline assessment patterns across cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurologic, gastrointestinal, and genitourinary systems.
Integrated Systems
Build on foundational assessment skills across integumentary, eyes and ears, nose and throat, musculoskeletal, and endocrine systems.
Head-to-Toe Assessment
Integrate knowledge and skills across all major body systems through a systematic, head-to-toe patient assessment.
Learn Through Discovery. Apply Through Practice.
Each body-system module combines two complementary learning modes, giving learners opportunities to first explore core concepts and then put their knowledge into practice.
DISCOVERY MODE
Learners build understanding through unscored exploration of anatomy, assessment frameworks, clinical observations, videos, 3D anatomy, and guided activities.
APPLICATION MODE
Learners apply assessment and clinical reasoning skills in scored, case-based patient simulations that recreate realistic clinical scenarios.
Strengthen Learner Reflection with EMPOWER® Debrief
Extend learning beyond the patient encounter with EMPOWER® Debrief. This AI-facilitated, asynchronous debrief experience guides learners through self-reflection while providing actionable insights for both learners and facilitators.
Available immediately after completion of each patient experience, debrief reports help identify where learning and instruction can improve while highlighting opportunities for continued growth.
Key Features
Designed to enhance assessment skills while supporting efficient instruction, Sentinel ARC: Health Assessment offers:
- 3D anatomical exploration
- Real 360° patient room simulations for environmental assessment
- AI-driven patient interviews using conversational agents
- Interactive physical exam tools, including inspection, auscultation, palpation, and percussion
- Knowledge checks with feedback and randomized question banks
- Token-based hint system to support learning progression
- AI-assisted scoring of ISBAR documentation
- Optional AI Grading for Learner Responses
- Learning outcomes aligned with AACN Essentials*, the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model, and NCLEX Client Need Categories
Track Learner Progress with Analytics & Reporting
Gain clear visibility into learner performance with METRIX®, Sentinel U’s analytics dashboard. Faculty can track individual and cohort progress, identify strengths and areas for improvement, and evaluate outcomes against key nursing competency frameworks.
- Track learner progress and performance across modules
- Review individual and cohort-level performance
- Identify strengths, gaps, and progress by assessment area
- Evaluate outcomes against AACN Essentials, NCLEX Client Need Categories, and the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model
- Export performance reports and review detailed learner activity
Prepare Learners for Real-World Patient Care
Help learners put knowledge into practice through immersive assessment, AI-supported interactions, and guided reflection. Sentinel ARC: Health Assessment strengthens clinical reasoning skills, improves readiness for real-world patient care, and provides educators with meaningful performance insights.