Sacred Heart University School of Nursing Selects Gaumard® Scientific's Victoria™ for Use in Nursing Simulation & Clinical Skills Laboratories

FAIRFIELD, Conn., and MIAMI, Oct. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sacred Heart University School of Nursing and Gaumard Scientific today announced the installation of the Victoria birthing simulator in SHU's Nursing Simulation & Clinical Skills Laboratories. The addition of the fully tetherless and wireless simulator, designed and manufactured by Gaumard in Miami, reflects SHU's commitment to providing its instructors and students with the latest technology in nursing education.  

Victoria is the most recent addition to Gaumard's family of NOELLE maternal and neonatal care simulators. Victoria has a patented, precision life-like delivery and birthing mechanism that births a lifelike, full-term baby with sophisticated monitoring capabilities. The Victoria system includes comprehensive clinical scenarios, including shoulder dystocia and postpartum hemorrhage. With articulating endoskeletons and silky smooth elastomeric skin, Victoria is the most realistic, fully tetherless and wireless maternal/fetal simulator for use in actual point-of-care training.

Beth Boyd, MSN, RN, CNE, director of Nursing Simulation & Clinical Skills Laboratories at SHU School of Nursing, said: "The nursing simulation and skills laboratories provide the students the opportunity to learn and practice in a realistic and risk-free environment. These experiences provide invaluable opportunities to enrich and enhance learning as well as increase student confidence. Victoria has the capabilities of providing innovative and realistic experiences. We are eager to incorporate this latest technology into our School of Nursing and provide interactive-strategies and engaged learning for our students."

John Eggert, Gaumard's executive vice president, said: "SHU School of Nursing has fully embraced the use of simulation in its programs. We are pleased with the selection of Victoria as a showcase technology in what is a tech-savvy learning environment. Victoria has raised the bar to a new standard that reflects our commitment to designing products with input from those who use them."   

About Sacred Heart University

Sacred Heart University, the second-largest independent Catholic university in New England, offers more than 50 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs on its main campus in Fairfield, Connecticut, and satellites in Connecticut, Luxembourg and Ireland. More than 6,400 students attend the University's five colleges: Arts & Sciences; Health Professions; University College; the AACSB-accredited John F. (Jack) Welch College of Business; and the NCATE-accredited Isabelle Farrington College of Education. The Princeton Review includes SHU in its guides Best 379 Colleges – 2015 Edition, "Best in the Northeast" and Best 295 Business Schools – 2014 Edition. U.S. News & World Report ranks SHU among the best master's universities in the North in its annual "America's Best Colleges" publication. Sacred Heart was also mentioned in Money magazine's ranking of Fairfield as the 64th best town to live. As one of just 23 institutions nationally, SHU is a member of the Association of American Colleges & Universities' (AAC&U) Core Commitments Leadership Consortium, in recognition of its core, "The Human Journey." SHU fields 31 division I athletic teams and has an award-winning program of community service. www.sacredheart.edu.

For additional Sacred Heart University news, please visit http://www.sacredheart.edu/aboutshu/news/.

About Gaumard Scientific

Gaumard® Scientific Company has designed, manufactured and marketed simulators for health care education for more than 60 years. Users worldwide – the military, emergency medical services, major teaching hospitals and nursing schools – recognize Gaumard products for their innovation in simulation in the pre-hospital, obstetrics and gynecology, surgical and nursing care segments. In 2000, Gaumard launched the revolutionary family of NOELLE® maternal and neonatal care simulators that changed the way training is conducted. In 2004, Gaumard pioneered the use of fully tetherless technology with the introduction of the family of HAL® simulators. In 2014, the company introduced Victoria™, its most advanced, mobile maternal/fetal simulator as part of the NOELLE family.

Gaumard manufactures its products at its world headquarters in Miami. The company sells simulators through its own representatives in North America and through 200 distributors in 70 countries. For more information, visit www.gaumard.com. Follow Gaumard on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/GaumardInFocus on Facebook at www.facebook.com/gaumardsimulators and on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/gaumardmedsimulators.

Click here to see a schedule of upcoming events at which Gaumard will demonstrate its patient simulators. 

Sacred Heart University Contact:

Funda Alp
Executive Director of Public Relations
(203) 396-8241
[email protected]

Company Contacts:

Peter Eggert
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Vice President International Operations
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(305) 484-6679 Mobile
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