09/25/2026
A good day used to mean a two-hour drive.
That was the reality for the nursing program at Lurleen B. Wallace Community College, a rural community college in Alabama. Students travelled two hours to their OB clinical site and, on a good day, saw one birth. Maybe two. And seeing is largely what it was. If they made it into the room at all, they were often in the corner - watching rather than doing.
So the program changed the question. Instead of asking how to get students into more births, they asked how to make sure every student is properly part of one. They brought Avbirth into their own lab, with faculty wearing the simulator and playing the patient. Now, in a single day, a student observes three births and takes part in one. They talk to someone who talks back. They read a face. They're in the moment rather than at the edge of it.
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Lurleen B Wallace explains how wearable simulators solved their clinical placement problem with transformational simulation for nursing.
