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Nurse Leader Weekly, March 10, 2008

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"Ever have a patient go bad and just wish at the end of the day you could get a chance to replay it and fix what went wrong?" asks Charlene Gordon, RN, emergency preparedness manager at Huntsville (TX) Memorial Hospital. "I just got done with a three-day WMD (weapons of mass destruction) course that had a robot for a victim. And this guy was so real, it was scary."

"'The guy' was a mannequin that blinked, had pupils that were reactive to light, and emitted pulses from every place a real person would. He made different heart sounds and different lung sounds while his chest rose and fell. He had an IV site that takes into account which drug you are pushing, how much you are giving, and how fast you are giving it! He responds by computer to all your interventions, including reading an exact oxygen saturation to see if you are bagging correctly."

"Crashing him is okay . . . just reboot and start all over again. With this one, you can play it again. And, what a learning experience it was!"

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