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Dummies to the rescue-to be rescued

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, March 17, 2006

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With medical errors killing about 200,000 hospital patients a year, it's clear that a drastic improvement in patient safety is necessary. That's why North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System (LIJ), headquartered in Great Neck, NY, is taking action. Last week, the health system opened its Patient Safety Institute, which features a high-tech simulation lab with life-like computerized mannequins that allow nurses and doctors to practice their clinical skills in a medical emergency without risk to real patients.

A family of patient simulators-a man, woman, and baby-is used at the Patient Safety Institute to help nurses, doctors, and emergency medical workers sharpen their clinical skills. The patient simulators look and feel real and are anatomically correct. They cough, breath, and complain when they are in pain. Using a computer, trained instructors in control rooms with one-way mirrors can manipulate the patient simulators to mimic virtually any medical scenario: stroke, heart attack, small pox, amputation, or other trauma.

Source: North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System

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