By Katherine Svenkeson

Sask Polytech surprises students with mock emergency

Mar 16, 2016 | 5:31 PM

Nursing students at Saskatchewan Polytechnic were taken by surprise when Parkland Ambulance rushed into a room to start CPR on a 70-year-old man.

The 70-year-old man was actually a dummy, but paramedics and instructors treated it like an actual emergency in front of a handful of nursing students.

The “70-year-old” was found in a state of code blue, unresponsive and without a pulse.

The demonstrators acted in regular emergency room fashion, ventilating, performing CPR, defibrillating and giving medication to the “patient” before calling time of death after being unable to revive him.

Jamie Louiseize, a registered psychiatric nurse and faculty member of the Psychiatric Nursing Program at Sask Polytech said simulations are something they’re trying to do more of for the students.

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“Our new simulation lab has been great,” Louseize said. “They can have time and a chance to practice in safe environments before they get into real life situations.

“The students often say they really appreciate the time to practice in that safe environment before it happens in real life, so it definitely increases their skills and their confidence level.”

Nicole Lafave, a practical nursing student, said it was nice to see how EMS and nurses collaborate to save the patient. “It was very interesting to see a real life situation and to see how it would work in an emergency room at the hospital.”

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