The Margaret Mallory pediatric simulation suites have officially opened at two University of New Brunswick campuses, allowing nursing students to rehearse skills in a safe environment on high-tech mannequins or actors before facing certain situations in person.
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Hannah Rudderham · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 27, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago
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Mannequins are used in the pediatric simulation suite to allow students to have hands-on experience with babies. (Laura Flight/CBC)
In a suite at the University of New Brunswick, nursing students practise placing a pediatric catheter, administering IV medications to a seizing baby, and helping a mom breastfeed for the first time.
It’s part of a simulation program that allows students to rehearse these skills in a safe environment on high-tech mannequins or actors before ever facing a certain situation in person.
“The baby can seize, the baby can cry, move … we can do IV medications, we can catheterize the baby,” Dawn Burke, the Fredericton simulation strategist and a UNB teaching professor, said.
“Really, everything that we could do with the patient,
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