Last week, the Simulation in Motion-Nebraska (SIMNE) visited Chadron Community Hospital & Health Services. The truck is provided by the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and helps the hospital provide education to staff, and the community. This particular education to our staff at CCH is the next best thing to live scenarios. It helps to keep them up to date on skills and situations, and helps them to provide quality and lifesaving care. The simulation’s can be customized to specific scenarios, and each scenario uses high fidelity patient simulators. These simulators can talk, breathe, mimic medical issues, and bleed. This helps create a realistic, yet safe, learning environment.
This year we were able to partner with a few Chadron High School classes to offer some amazing simulations related to topics the students are currently studying while the simulators were here in Chadron. The two classes from Chadron High School that were able to participate in this amazing day of simulation was Mrs. Budlers’ Relationships Class and Mr. Bradleys’ Anatomy and Physiology Class.
Mrs. Budlers’ Relationships Class attended a simulated birth experience with the help of UNMC Simulation in Motion- Nebraska, Dr. Sutera, and Sandy Jersild, RN. The relationships class is a semester class offered at Chadron High School that discusses human development from birth through puberty, conception and into child bearing, the process and stages of pregnancy, dating and healthy relationships, and family structure. During the semester each student takes care of a “realcare baby” (infant simulator) for 3 days that is very high tech with sensors that indicate overheating, crying for too long, and is programed to simulate the needs of a real baby, such as feeding, diaper changes or needing attention.
Mr Bradleys’ Anatomy and Physiology Class is a semester class offered at Chadron High. During the semester each of Mr Bradleys’ students are responsible for planning a lesson, field trip, or guest speaker that correlates to a topic recently taught in class. The anatomy class has recently been studying the chest/thoracic structures, tissues, bones, and cavities. One students fieldtrip she planned for the Class was to attend a simulated chest trauma scenario with the help of UNMC Simulation in Motion- Nebraska. Robby Rhembrandt used pork ribs (uncooked) as well as a simulator mannequin to help the students understand the thoracic cavity with placing a chest tube post a trauma, discussing structures and functions within the chest. The use of the pork ribs gave a realistic comparison in feel of the muscle and fascia.
A huge thank you to Kelsey Miller, RN, and instructor
Robby Rembrandt, Western Coordinator/Lead Trainer, of UNMC Simulation in Motion-Nebraska for your expertise, and for putting this all on for us. Also, thank you to Kristle Sprock, RN Educator for CCH, for coordinating the whole event.
You can read more through The Chadron Record article here.
