University of Louisiana Creates Simulated Newborn and Delivery Unit

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  University of Louisiana nursing students can be assured that they'll experience a wide variety of pediatric and labor/delivery issues before they graduate. In 2007, the school created the Maternal/Child Life Skills lab, a high-tech facility equipped with life-like maternal and pediatric simulators.

Assistant professor of nursing and lab director Lisa Broussard, RN, DNS, said that the school implemented adult simulators five years ago and has since searched for other ways to utilize the technology. Full-sized computerized mannequins have been growing in popularity as a way to mimic real life environments and patient problems but UL's lab is one of the first in the country to focus on maternal and child life skills.

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[DaddyCajun]

This is great, and will help to a degree get nurses out in the real world with somewhat better experience so that not as much OJT is done on your or my wife or children.

This nursing program is really putting itself on the forefront.