<h4>OB Boot Camp: Maternity Simulators in Clinical Education</h4>

Abstract

&lt;h4&gt;OB Boot Camp: Maternity Simulators in Clinical Education&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Clinical simulation models have been shown to be an effective nursing education technology (Johnson, Zerwic, &amp;amp; theis, 1999). This technology has undergone recent innovations in the area of birthing simulation. Maternity simulators are life-like manikins that can represent maternity clients for nursing and medical students. Simulators can vary from simple partial body models to full-body electronic simulators with fetal heartbeats and mechanical mechanisms to propel a manikin fetus through the pelvis. These simulators perform the cardinal movements of labor and birth, and the neonatal models can simulate the transition of the newborn to extra-uterine life. Some models can be attached to a computer so students can practice live-action fetal heartbeat and labor scenarios. [more...]&lt;/p&gt;

Constructing Maternal-Child Learning Experiences Using Clinical Simulations

“…An ''OB Boot Camp'' was designed and implemented by educators at the University of Maryland for students to attend before starting clinical rotations in their maternal-child nursing course (Fountain & Spunt, 2006). Similar in format to the lab experience at the Midwest school of nursing, students rotated through clinical stations focused on pregnancy, labor and delivery, postpartum care, newborn care, and breastfeeding.…”