Thursday, November 4, 2010

Inside St. Ignatius Hospital

I just found this awesome video on the Boston College website of student nurses working and learning inside the simulation laboratory, also known as St. Ignatius Hospital. Students begin to work in the "sim lab" with computer-programmed dummies sophomore year before stepping into the hospital setting. We continue to work in this practice area all the way through senior year in conjunction with clinical rotations. Our instructors sit behind a two-way mirror and control the mannequins. They speak through the dummies and change their blood pressure, heartbeat, etc. I won't be in the sim lab until the spring, but it's something that I'm really looking forward to. I can't wait to begin the "hands-on" part of nursing!

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