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>> Hi Mrs. Hexman this is Amy, my name's Andrea.
>> Hi.
>> She's a Penn College student nurse
and we're gonna put an IV in today.
I'm gonna talk her through it.
Are you ok with her doing this?
>> Yep I'm fine.
>> Ok. You want to get all of your supplies around.
>> Ok.
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>> When I got pregnant and I was going
to my doctor appointments the nurses just made me feel
so unbelievably you know special and cared for
and like I was the first patient they had ever seen you know just
made me feel that cared for that I thought to myself
if I can make somebody feel the same way
that they're making me feel, that's what I want
to be able to do with my life.
>> Hi my name is Amy Vanderwall.
I'm a senior Bachelor of Nursing student here at Penn College.
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Right now we're standing in one of the best parts
that I think the nursing program at Penn College has to offer
and it's the nursing lab.
I would say as far as practicing
in the lab definitely your first year in nursing school you're
in here a lot, learning a lot of the skills and then
as time progresses we're in here less and we're
out in the clinical setting more but at first we're definitely
in here a lot learning how to take care of patients,
learning all of the skills, catheters,
traches, things like that.
>> His hand against.
>> one of my favorite parts in the labs is SimMan
and this is SimMan and if you can see SimMan is actually
breathing on his own.
SimMan will talk, SimMan has a heart monitor hooked up to him,
oxygen supply, blood pressure cuff, he has an IV,
so he is pretty well set up as if he were a patient
in a hospital setting.
Basically what would happen is the instructor chooses the
scenario and then the students choose what interventions we
need to do to help this patient and so when we get
out into the hospital setting, or the nursing home setting,
or wherever we might be, we're with real people
and would much rather practice here on SimMan
and learn my skills here and then when you get
out into the clinical setting it is so much more comfortable.
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I came in older, you know not just straight
out of high school person, pregnant and came in right
at the last minute and said I have decided I want
to do nursing, this is what I want to do
and the nursing department did everything possible
to make that happen for me.
>> What was the website Hope was talking about?
>> My classes this year are about 20 people and we've all been
with each other for the past 3 years so we know each other
and we're a tiny little family that is able to get along and go
through this experience together.
I know a lot of the professors well enough they ask
about you know my life outside of school, my life in school,
they care how things are going with the semester,
they want to see you do well.
Classes are extremely intense.
Med surge nursing, OB, pediatrics, mental health,
med surge 2, cardiac, but I love them and I've learned
such an incredible amount.
After the past 4 years I sit down and have conversations
with people and I think wow 4 years ago I would not have
understood a thing I just said.
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All the different units in the hospitals, nursing homes,
different community organizations and schools,
I mean I've been in all of those places for clinical.
It's great to be able to go to an employer
and say yes I've had experience on all
of these multiple different units,
and these different organizations.
What I'm thinking about right now is medical surgical nursing
or emergency trauma nursing because you are able to use all
of these skills that we've practiced over the past 4 years
and see them all with actual patients.
>> We're gonna [inaudible] good and then you can slowly flush.
>> The number one thing in nursing is
to be the patient advocate,
to be able to always do what is right
for the patient is the best feeling in the world
because how else would you be able to justify being a nurse
or being in the medical field caring for people's lives
without doing what's right for them.
I'm extremely happy being in the nursing field.
I have goals now.
I have a vision of where I want to be in the future.
I know that I want to help people and help them
to get healthy, to stay healthy.
I know that's what I want to do with my life.