Open House at College of Nursing Demonstrates New Teaching
Mannequins
A mannequin that mimics the needs of an infant and a machine
that simulates the sounds of the heart will be on display
at an open house of the USM College of Nursing & Health Professions
(CONHP) Learning Resource Center from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday,
April 15.
The CONHP Learning Resource Center provides students and
faculty with equipment, computers, software, and videos meant
to simulate various medical conditions and situations. In
the past, techniques such as drawing blood, taking blood pressure,
and examining infants, needed real patients for students to
learn on.
Newly acquired equipment includes a blood pressure training
arm that simulates the sounds that a nurse hears while taking
a patient's blood pressure; an Automatic External Defibrilator
simulator (AEDs are now kept in many public places such as
airports and save the lives of heat attack victims); a machine
that simulates the normal and abnormal sounds that hearts,
lungs and bowels make; an I.V. simulator, a state-of-the-art
virtual reality simulator, that teaches students how to draw
blood and start I.V.s; an infant training mannequin, with
inflatable fontenals; and "Baby Think it Over,"
a mannequin that can be programmed to mimic hunger, crying,
and other needs of a live infant.
WHAT: CONHP Learning Resource Center Open House.
DATE/TIME: 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday, April 15.
WHERE: Room 104/106, USM's Masterton Hall, Portland.
CONTACT: Janis Childs, director, Learning Resource Center
and assistant professor of nursing, 780-4063, or Shannon Gouzie,
administrative assistant, 780-4793.
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