HCTW News: Indiana nursing students prepare for a disaster
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, May 15, 2009
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Junior-level nursing students from Anderson (IN) University (AU) are prepared to take off in a helicopter when disaster strikes.
The AU nursing students recently participated in training at Saint John Health System on how to care for patients being transported via helicopter during a disaster. Flight nurses and paramedics showed the students how they properly load patients and the tight quarters where patients are cared for in-flight.
The nursing students also took part in a real-life disaster scenario at a lab at the hospital where staff members simulated a disaster zone by tearing the lab apart and turning off the lights. Some students played the roles of hurt patients while other students acted as first and second responders to the scene and triaged the patients.
Source: The Herald Bulletin
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