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Dan Fisher
Issue date: 2/25/09 Section: News
WATCH a video with this story. Kent State is using simulation to enhance the learning environment for nursing students.
Pulses, heartbeats and voices, are characteristics that you would not expect a mannequin to have.
Kent State is using simulation to enhance the learning environment for nursing students.
The Olga A. Mural simulation lab was installed April 23, 2008 by the College of Nursing.
Olga A. Mural is the leading donor and has given a large amount of money to Kent, in hope that students will be benefited.
The lab uses special manikins that cost $60,000 and up, and an altogether total cost of $250,000.
The mannequins are used to portray real-life scenarios that nurses will face after graduation.
The mannequins can be used to stimulate a heart attack, breathing disorders, and a heart murmur.
The scenarios do not stop at those they can range from sophomore level to senior level.
Nancy Aho, coordinator of the simulation lab, said "the lab is used to give students confidence in what they will be doing after college".
The wide range of difficulties allows the students to interact with the different injuries and ailments.
Aho said "One day we will be able to have emergency personnel training in the lab".
This will be part of the entrepreneurial part of the lab, but at the same time a necessary expense for the outside sources because of the benefits of the lab.
Since there are not many schools that are able to have a simulation lab, it puts Kent in one of the top categories for nursing.
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