The apollo male wireless simulator will help students in real life-threatening scenarios. Today I spoke with Lakeview professor Rita Wallace about why this technology will benefit students for years to come. He has a heartbeat, real hair and eyebrows, can urinate, bleed, and talk. Lakeview College of Nursing just welcomed home a new simulator that students can learn techniques when working on real life patients. Professor Rita Wallace says in her ten years of being at Lakeview this piece of technology has endless opportunities for the students. Rita Wallace says, "We can do more wide range simulations. Lets pretend realism and the more real we can make it and the one thing we learned from the company that developed this CAE is we need to nurse out loud, we need to give rationales and really show what and let the patient know that we have this and we got this and it's not just fake it until you make it, it's real life." The apollo male wireless simulator can also hemorrhage convulse, be incubated, respond to medications and the application of the CPR process. It also has the capability to be altered to a female client. Lakeview student Kaylee Beals says today was the first time she worked on the simulator and says it was nothing like any other mannequin she's practiced on. Kaylee Beals says, "Working with him or working on him completely, you have to remind yourself that is is just a mannequin but at the same time you have to realize he is doing all of these that any person that could walk into the ER or the hospital could be doing." Wallace says the Danville campus also received a new simulator and the two warranted simulators cost the school 96-thousand dollars. Beals says with only being a first semester nursing student she's thankful for the opportunities she gets through Lakeview and to one day become a pediatric nurse. Beals says, "They spent plenty of money on him and I think it's going to be really beneficial and a really good investment into our education and it's something we all should be really thankful to have." Wallace says they're having a contest on what the simulator's name will be. The two possible names are Maverick and Zeus.
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