“If we can train nurses here [at Columbus State University] in a simulation lab with robotics, they’ll be more comfortable the first time they’re in a ‘real-life’ NICU caring for a live baby,”
“These nursing students will use what they’ve learned with [robotic simulators] when caring for real people; if we can give them that confidence, they’ll provide better care to those mothers and their children.”
- Scott
The Miracles Riders Head out again for pediatric nursing
The Miracle Riders departed on May 6th for the third fundraising motorcycle ride benefiting Columbus State University’s School of Nursing. The 19-day ride raised funds for a new neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) simulation teaching lab.
“This lab is our OB lab or our obstetrical nursing lab, and we have a brand new state-of-the-art mannequin that allows students to perform those skills and techniques needed to assist with successful deliveries,” said Dr. Jherika Tyler, the assistant director of undergraduate nursing program. “We can also manipulate the environment and create a safe space for them to practice those abnormal deliveries.”
“The money we’re raising is going to a great university,” Miracle Riders’ founder Scott Ressmeyer. “[CSU’s nursing students] are the people who will take care of our future generations of kids in labor and delivery or pediatric units. The training they are getting and will be getting through [the support of the Miracle Riders to fund these labs] will benefit them, which will in turn benefit our citizens right here in our community.”
“I see it this way, we are only here for a short time, and I plan on making the most of it. If I’m lucky, a child that the Miracle Rider helped, will one day ride his or her motorcycle across the country and watch the sunset over the Pacific and know that the people of the world are good.”
