Office Hours WITH JEAN MARIE REDDER
Nursing Instructor and Simulation Lab Coordinator, Presbyterian School of Nursing
Prominently located on the second floor of Knight-Crane Hall (formerly known as the Walker Science Building) is the Christie and Jon Hunt Nursing Simulation Center. Inside you’ll find Jean Marie Redder ’96, nursing instructor and simulation lab coordinator for Presbyterian School of Nursing. Redder, who joined Queens’ faculty as an adjunct in 2018 and went full time in 2020, has fond memories of living in Wallace Hall (now Hall Brown Overcash Hall) and spending time with her sisters in Kappa Delta sorority. In the simulation lab, which was a gift
from Christie BSN ’92, MSN ’05 and Jon Hunt, Ph.D., during the renovation of Knight-Crane Hall in 2016, you will find a variety of cutting-edge tools and programs that allow faculty to educate Queens nursing students, engaging them in a host of realistic nursing simulations where critical thinking and nursing acumen must be applied. Under the guidance of Redder and
other Queens faculty members, students learn essential nursing proficiencies, from individual skills such as administering medication to performing physical assessments. Here, students interact with their peers, working as a team amidst a variety of scenarios and attending to the needs of the Queens manikin “family.”
1. Hospitals would not exist without patients, so with that in mind, the lab is home to eight beds and four high-tech manikins that talk, react and show signs of a variety of medical conditions. When Redder joined Queens’ faculty, she felt strongly that the manikins needed names to help make the simulations more realistic. This manikin, the newest addition to the group, is a state-of-the-art Laerdal simulation manikin. Affectionately named “Queenie,” this technology will help hundreds of hopeful nursing students cultivate their bedside manner, critical thinking skills and technical abilities.
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2. All students and faculty members who walk into the Hunt Nursing Simulation Center dress in what they would wear in a typical hospital setting. Donning scrubs and identification tags help create a professional workplace atmosphere, where patients with realistic health issues await care. Redder wears the same scrubs she sports in her current job as a certified maternal newborn nurse at CaroMont Health.
3. Redder keeps this picture of her colleagues from the Birthplace at CaroMont Health close by to remind
her of the important work she is doing each day. This image, one of her favorites, is a physical representation of the hope she has for her Queens nursing students. Redder knows full well that she is preparing them for a critical career and is eager for them to join the profession and make friendships to last a lifetime.
4. Redder proudly wears both her Queens and Mercy School of Nursing pins she received upon graduation. After graduating early
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