Week 4

Week 4

This week we had direction from our Professors on making a check list for our lab. I spent time with Sue discussing the idea of a video lab manual. We decided that although we would eventually like to have a video manual, that we would not use video at this time. We are still planning on using video for the SimMan 3G mannequin portion of the manual. This will be developed near the end of the quarter.

Sue and I developed a plan for our presentation that we will give to our peers at the end of the quarter. This may change after we get the SimMan 3G together and have the opportunity to start developing ideas on him. We also talked about what kind of check lists would work for the Simulation lab. We decided that we needed a student and a faculty portion. We will also have a SimMan checklist later in the quarter. I spent some time on the internet reviewing other Simulation Lab Manuals. They range in length; one I saw was over 300 pages. I am not sure how long ours will be, but I am betting we will not be at the 300 mark! We begin the process of our checklist. We discovered we had a few different ideas on what a check list is and should include so we had to compromise and came up with a draft. We placed our draft in dropbox.com and invited our professors to join. I believe two of the three have joined us thus far. 

This week in the lab the students were in the beds practicing range of motion and positioning skills. These are vital skills for our students as they will be assisting real life patients next quarter.  All of our mannequins’ had to be removed from their beds so the students could use the beds. We continue to have a family of mannequins displayed in the “display window” and the child I put away for a while. I decided to leave a male and a female mannequin out sitting at the tables with the students. Grandma mannequin I removed from the bed as she assisted our students in learning how to allow a patient to “fall” (really, we do not allow patients to fall, it is a way of lowering a patient to the ground softly if they can no longer hold themselves up). Students seemed to enjoy this week. Stay tuned for more!