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JCHS Hosts Fourth Annual Interprofessional Education Simulation Activity
On Friday, March 30, 2012, JCHS hosted the fourth annual Interprofessional Education Simulation Activity in the labs on the ninth floor, and rooms on the sixth and tenth floors of CRCH. This activity allows students and other healthcare professionals to experience what it’s like to work as a team during a simulated emergency situation involving many patients with a variety of injuries. This year, the event centered on a tornado in downtown Roanoke during a concert in Elmwood Park.
During the event, students from a variety of JCHS academic programs and classes—including Nursing, Physician Assistant, Respiratory Therapy, Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapy, Health Psychology, Medical Laboratory Sciences, Emergency Services and Public Health—are grouped together and assigned a mock patient involved in the situation. The students caring for patients are not informed of the nature of the event until the activity begins. They then have to assess the situation and treat their patients as a team on the spot. Goals of this simulation activity are to improve leadership skills and encourage interprofessional collaboration. The goals are not related to disaster preparedness.
In addition to the JCHS students, we were joined by pharmacy students from the Medical College of Virginia, Shenandoah University, Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Charleston (WV), as well as representatives from Carilion Clinic’s Pharmacy Department, Trauma Team, Lab Department, Emergency Department and Chaplain Services, and the Carilion Clinic/UVA Clinical Education Program.
Below are photos of our students from the event. We hope you enjoy this glimpse into the innovative methods we are using to provide IPE to our students. |
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Photos from the 2012 Interprofessional Education Simulation Activity
Click on a photo to see an enlarged version with more detail.
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Everyone participating in the simulation
activity initially met in a classroom on the
sixth floor for a briefing of the situation.
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Then, all of the participants headed
up to the ninth floor labs to begin
the simulation.
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Among those who joined us were
Carilion Clinic President and CEO
Nancy Howell Agee (center) and JCHS
President Dr. Nathaniel L. Bishop, who
chatted with PA Program Director
Patricia Airey.
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Nearby, a team of students from
the JCHS Emergency Services,
Nursing, Physician Assistant and
Respiratory Therapy Programs
collaborated to treat a
mock patient.
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The teams were evaluated by JCHS
faculty and Administration on their
collaborative skills rather than their
clinical skills.
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A JCHS Nursing student assesses
and comforts a mock patient. The
students participating didn't know the
scenario until the simulation began.
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A JCHS Respiratory Therapy student
"cares for" a mannequin head that
could be intubated that stood in for
the mock patient.
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As the students worked together, they
were filmed so they could watch
themselves later and evaluate how
well they collaborated.
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A JCHS Physician Assistant student
checks in with her Nursing and
Emergency Services colleagues to
report her assessment.
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As the scenario took place, faculty
threw situational curveballs at the
students to gauge reactions to quickly
changing circumstances.
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Even though the participants weren't
graded on their clinical skills, the event
still gave them a great opportunity
to practice those skills in a
"real-world" environment.
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Nursing Department Secretary Janice
Taylor played a very convincing victim,
being cared for by Laura Link of the
JCHS Medical Laboratory Science
Program and a Public Health student.
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JCHS Respiratory Therapy and
Physician Assistant students care for an
infant born shortly after the tornado,
represented here by a mannequin.
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As the simulation ended, our
"patients," played by JCHS students,
had a chance to relax a bit, despite
their realistic-looking wounds.
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A JCHS Nursing student starts
an IV in a mannequin arm near the
end of the simulation.
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In the post-event briefing,
a tornado "victim" still bears
the scars of his ordeal.
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JCHS Nursing students listen as a team
summarizes their experiences in the
post-event debriefing.
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A team stands at the front of the room,
speaking about how they worked
together to save their patient.
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