护理圣udents Practice Skills During Public Health Emergency Drill

4月3日，学生在 mg冰球突破豪华版下载护理课程 learned how to manage a potential outbreak of bacterial meningitis during a public health emergency drill. This h和s-on approach to learning taught the students how to keep calm 和 communicate effectively amid stressful situations.

“I think it helped us gain a perspective on community nursing as well as how to h和le big challenges like meningitis,23岁的克莱尔·米德说, 参加演习的护理系学生. 对米德来说，这种情况离他的家很近. 她感染了病毒性脑膜炎, 很少危及生命, 在她大学的第一年.

“作为一个曾经患过脑膜炎的人, it brought me some relief knowing people are willing to help quickly 和 put a stop to it if meningitis does spread again,”她说。.

“这次紧急演习, 就像其他模拟临床经验一样, 为我们的护生提供了宝贵的, realistic experience collaborating with other health professionals to solve real-world problems 和 enhance skills necessary to respond to the needs of patients 和 the community,米利萨·沃利诺说, Director of Nurse Education 和 Associate Professor of Nurse Education. “As a result of incorporating opportunities like the emergency in our existing curriculum, our students are better prepared to transition to practice as a registered nurse.”

The on-campus drill involved a simulated patient who described symptoms consistent with bacterial meningitis. 护生调查了病人, 确定了患者的密切接触者, 和 then set up a point of distribution (POD) to dispense preventative medications to those exposed to prevent further disease transmission.

“I chose to build this exercise to give our senior nursing students insight into the nurse’s role in a public health infectious disease response,黛博拉·沃格洛姆说, a member of the EC Nursing faculty 和 organizer of the emergency drill. “I chose bacterial meningitis because it is very different from COVID. I wanted the students to underst和 many other infectious diseases need monitoring. It was realistic because meningitis spreads among young people on college campuses 和 there have been recent outbreaks of meningitis across the United States. This exercise allowed students to have fun 和 learn at the same time.”

沃格洛姆在演习中解释了这一点, 在得知疑似细菌性脑膜炎病例后, the students conducted a case investigation 和 discussed the case with an epidemiologist from the New York State Department of Health, 车芒县卫生厅的代表, 及教统会行政部门代表. 根据信息, the team decided to set up a POD at 埃尔迈拉大学 to dispense appropriate antibiotics to anyone exposed either on campus or in the community. The students then set up the POD 和 dispensed antibiotics to over 75 “community members” in less than an hour.

“We are deeply appreciative to have been offered the opportunity to assist with this drill. 正如我们在COVID-19大流行中看到的那样, everyone has a role to play when responding to a public health emergency,Kali Beilman-Martin说, Public Health Program Coordinator for the Chemung County Health Department. “It is our hope that students came away from it with a better underst和ing of a public health response as well as an interest in helping protect their community in the future.”

Lauren Foster ’23, a Nursing major, was assigned the role of POD manager. 她喜欢模拟的真实性, especially how the volunteer actors added to the real situations health professionals are likely to encounter in an emergency.

“对我来说, the best part of the experience was taking a timeout in the middle to check in with the participants 和 see what needed to change to make things more efficient,福斯特说。. “我学会了如何有效地沟通, 接受建议, 找到保持有效流通的方法, 和, 当然, 这有助于进一步培养我的团队合作能力.”

梅迪尔也有同感. “这种刺激很好地将我们与患者联系起来, 因为焦虑和压力是造成这种重大灾难的重要因素,”她说。.