How do you practice this??

no mannequins for ngs though.

we had mannequins for ng. of course, they were nothing like the real thing! we also had a rather active mannequin who coughed during his trach care...and the class after me had a mannequin that gave birth!

~jess

we had mannequins for ng. of course, they were nothing like the real thing! we also had a rather active mannequin who coughed during his trach care...and the class after me had a mannequin that gave birth!

~jess

i'm actually pretty excited about robotics and how they could influence education through presentation of more 'realistic' scenarios. we had a mannequin called "homer" in school. he was used as a 'test patient' for various scenarios for us to run through (while he and his symptoms were being controlled by another professor sitting in an adjacent room). i mean, you could "hear" lung sounds, heart tones etc. with your stethoscope while a monitor fed you details such as heart rhythms and bp etc.

while it was some what 'crude' in design - it helped make the whole scenario a tad more 'realistic'.

can you imagine a mannequin complete with veins (especially veins with ivs that could be programmed to 'blow'), skin that turns blue/mottled, have spontaneous sob??

wouldn't that be an interesting experiment/teaching environment?

cheers,

We were not allowed to practice anything invasive on each other on penalty of expulsion - it costs the school extra in insurance to allow this, and mine didn't want to pay for it. We also couldn't take any equipment out of the lab, and were told by an instructor (no idea if it's true) that if you're pulled over driving home and the cops find IV catheters, they'll assume you're a drug user and treat you as such - an additional incentive not to steal practice materials. We had fake arms for IVs, fake butts for enemas, and dummies to practice NG insertion, trach and wound care. We had a SIM man too that we occasionally ran scenarios on, and there was a SIM pregnant woman who gave birth, but I think she was broken for our semester. Nope, the only practice we got was on really sick people with no veins!

we're going to practice on each other, we had to sign waivers about it. That's the part of NS I'm most scared of