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The human patient simulators are mannequins such as what we have here that are designed
to replicate human functions such as blinking, breathing, heart sounds, bowel sounds, breath
sounds, pulses. So, they enable students to practice on the mannequins to prepare them
for clinical as well as put them in situations that they wouldn't necessarily be exposed
to and help them sharpen their skill so when they do go to clinical they are better prepared.
All together within our system, and again, part of the responsibility of the health simulation
coordinator is to make sure that this level of equipment is available at all the campuses.
So we have the Reedsburg, Watertown, Fort Atkinson, we have simulation centers, as well
as Protective Services building and here at Truax. All together we have 32 simulators.
They are a mix of high-fidelity which is what you see here that has all the functions versus
a medium to a low-fidelity mannequins.
The programs that use simulation at the college can be any program that has any kind of patient
care. Our large users would be the paramedic program, EMT basic, as well as paramedic,
respritory therapy and nursing. We also use the center a little bit kind of outside of
the box, meaning, we don't use the mannequins but we use the rooms because we can record
audio and visual so our physical therapy program as well as occupational therapy assistant
program use the rooms and use standardized patients which are real patients that are
lying in the bed and then those students have to practice those cares and manipulations
and so fourth.
Our health simulation center at Truax is designed to replicate what you would find in a real
clinical setting. So we have two trauma rooms. One being an adult trauma room, one is a pediatric
trauma room, which we have a five-year-old and a nine-month-old. Then we have a mother
and baby area so we have a birthing suite as well as more of a neonatal intensive care
unit, an apartment because we realize that not all of our patients live in a hospital.
So we have an apartment type of a setting where we can change it into more of a hospice
setting or a homecare setting. And then we have two general patient rooms. One that you're
in right now that looks very similar to a just a general patient room. Everything works
in this environment, meaning that all the gases are real, the equipment is real, so
whenever those students go to those clinical settings they are better prepared.