Muskegon CC nurses save 2-year-old at hotel pool

LIVONIA, Mich. (WOOD) — Muskegon Community College says the actions of two nursing faculty members and three students saved a two-year-old boy who had nearly drowned in a hotel pool.

MCC instructors Amy Herrington and Yolanda Burris, along with MCC nursing students Jennifer Vannortwick, Bailee Gorecki and Brittany Johnson, were in Livonia for the nearby Michigan Nursing Student Association Convention.

They were exercising when they heard screams. Herrington and Burris ran to the pool and pushed aside many people to go towards a motionless toddler, K.J., who had just been pulled out of the pool, according to the college.

“A lady had pulled the baby out of the pool and started CPR,” Burris said in a news release. “She was trying to do her best, but I taught CPR and it did not look effective to me.”

Herrington pushed the woman out of the way. The two faculty members began doing sets of 15-30 chest compressions, which were interrupted by breathing twice into the boy’s mouth.

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