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Medical Simulation Event - Unique Training Event Occurring at The WELLS Center
Denver, Colorado, December 8, 2008 — The Work, Education and Lifelong Learning Simulation Center (WELLS) Center will offer a unique training event for nursing, medical and paramedic students.
The team will simulate a seven bed emergency room, which will expose medical residents, nursing and paramedic students to the communications and interactions seen when EMS and hospital personnel interact. This simulated medical center will allow approximately fifty first-semester senior nursing students, eight paramedic students and eight medical residents to experience a two-unit hospital environment without the high risk.
The focus of simulation training at the WELLS Center is to provide an environment that is highly technical, allowing students to train on high velocity mannequins in an atmosphere conducive to critical thinking and training. Optimizing an atmosphere of safety in the training, sets this apart from traditional clinical training. Simulation training is taking a stronghold on education in the healthcare field. The Wells Center offers various simulation training to all healthcare agencies and academic institutions.
Partners in this training include: Regis University Loretto Heights Department of Nursing, Community College of Aurora (CCA), Denver Health, Center for Advancing Professional Excellence (CAPE), TolTech and the Work, Education and Lifelong Learning Simulation (WELLS) Center.
The nursing students will take on roles such as a primary RN, Charge Nurse or moulage as a patient. The faculty will act the role of nursing supervisor. There will be patients of all age levels in the Emergency Department along with trauma and ailments such as a motorcycle accident, a six year-old with abdominal pain and a SID’s infant. The triage nurses will assess patients who presented with a broken ankle, rash and other multiple illnesses. The Critical Care Unit will have high acuity patients such as an organ donor and respiratory distress.
The crew of paramedic students will find a patient outside in a park setting, and they will assess the patient and prepare to transport him via ambulance to the WELLS Simulation Medical Center. The paramedic students will also be transporting patients out of the WELLS Simulation Medical Center to other specialty centers such a burn unit.
Information Regarding the WELLS Center
The WELLS Center is a project that was funded in part by a grant awarded to the Colorado Department of labor and Employment under the President’s high Growth job Training Initiative as implemented by the US Department of labor’s Employment and Training Division.
The Center has several project partners and has been in operation for several years. The Center is located on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. The Center services simulation training state wide and healthcare professionals from the entire state of Colorado utilize the center.
The WELLS Center instructs all types of medical and nursing students with computer-driven mannequins that can simulate virtually any type of clinical experience- from emergency room situations to surgery, from heart attacks to births to allergic reactions and much more.
NEWS RELEASE CONTACT
Lucy Orr
Office: 303-326-0674 x17
lucy@coloradosimulationcenter.org
