Melissa Melcher (left), clinical assistant professor, and Bayan Alqam, teaching assistant and PhD nursing student, check a manikin in the Clinical Skills Lab at the new UWM James and Yvonne Ziemer Clinical Simulation Center. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)
Birthing manikin Lucina is prepped and ready to go in the labor and delivery room. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)
“I wanted to make sure the simulation space actually matched what professional health care facilities look like,” said Jessica Rotier, clinical assistant professor and director of nursing simulations. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)
The entrance to the Ziemer Clinical Simulation Center leads to a nursing station at the center of the facility, opening up to the mini hospital with three surgical rooms, an intensive care unit room and a labor and delivery room and other facilities. (UWM Photo/Elora Hennessey)
A professional-grade nursing facility, the UWM James and Yvonne Ziemer Clinical Simulation Center, is set to open to students in Fall 2022.
Spurred by a $1 million donation from three-time UWM alumnus and former CEO and president of Harley-Davidson James Ziemer and his wife, Yvonne, the center provides nursing students with a realistic setting in which to learn the things they will be practicing in their careers.
“We recognize that clinical learning is an important part of students’ learning and is different from simulation,” College of Nursing Dean Kim Litwack said. “This center and simulations will help augment that learning by letting students learn how to do high-risk procedures in a low-risk environment. It’s about developing and building on essential critical thinking skills.”
