When you've had 288 babies, many with complications, it's probably time for a break. But that's life when you're the birthing mom in the TTC Nursing Simulation Lab.
Noelle is a childbirth obstetrics labor manikin and though she wouldn't fool anyone on the street, she is real enough in the classroom. Students are able to simulate real-world clinical experiences. Noelle can breathe, blink has a pulse and can even speak during treatment. She features multiple fetal heart sounds, a dilating cervix, and a realistic uterus, and comes with a fetus and a baby.
It's no wonder students and faculty have come to think of her as one of the team, and when it was announced that the college had received funding to replace Noelle with a new manikin, everyone decided she definitely needed a retirement party.
At the party, Noelle reflected on her time at TTC.
"After having babies for 11 years, I am ready for retirement. There were many days when I felt like my uterus would fall out, and then one day it actually did! But fortunately, we had a replacement in storage," she says.
Noelle will be replaced by Victoria, who will start in the Fall. We caught up with her at the new employee orientation. Check out the video below to get to know Victoria.
For more information on TTC's Nursing program, click here.
Noelle is a childbirth obstetrics labor manikin and though she wouldn't fool anyone on the street, she is real enough in the classroom. Students are able to simulate real-world clinical experiences. Noelle can breathe, blink has a pulse and can even speak during treatment. She features multiple fetal heart sounds, a dilating cervix, and a realistic uterus, and comes with a fetus and a baby.
It's no wonder students and faculty have come to think of her as one of the team, and when it was announced that the college had received funding to replace Noelle with a new manikin, everyone decided she definitely needed a retirement party.
At the party, Noelle reflected on her time at TTC.
"After having babies for 11 years, I am ready for retirement. There were many days when I felt like my uterus would fall out, and then one day it actually did! But fortunately, we had a replacement in storage," she says.
Noelle will be replaced by Victoria, who will start in the Fall. We caught up with her at the new employee orientation. Check out the video below to get to know Victoria.
For more information on TTC's Nursing program, click here.
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