![]() ![]() ![]() Emergency ambulance simulator 2012 portable#“We can actually use on-board oxygen therapy rather than just portable oxygen therapy,” Poteet said. It features storage bins for equipment and supplies, a gurney and other medical devices such as oxygen therapy that can be used on the “patient,” a mannequin designed for medical training. It is a fully functioning unit that’s stocked and equipped with everything students will encounter on the job. While it may be missing the flashing lights and loud siren of a field ambulance, the simulator’s patient compartment works just as hard. “That’s crucial to training because ultimately every patient ends up there.” “Now we have the ability to simulate that experience in the back of ambulance,” he said. As “end-users,” the departments want to know the students can do whatever skills in specific environments, whether it is outside under dimly lit conditions, inside a patient’s home, or during transport in the back of an ambulance. When meeting with EMS departments, Poteet looks for feedback on how the GC programs can benefit them by providing students they want to hire. “The realism of the ambulance simulator better prepares them,” she continued.īrandon Poteet, professor of EMS at the college and a firefighter/paramedic, agrees. They need to know what that environment is like before we send them into the workforce. Not so in the back of the ambulance: they’re reaching over each other in a cramped space. “When they’re in the classroom, everything is nice and handy and in a controlled situation. “Part of our mission is to prepare students for the workplace, and the workplace for these students is the back of the ambulance,” said Lori Lefevers, GC’s director of emergency medical services. From left are Jacob Anderson of Whitesboro Tony Elmore of Sherman Jason Norris of Durant Brandon Poteet, EMS professor and Noah Stroud of Paris. Students in Grayson College’s paramedicine program get a dose of real-world practice in the college’s new ambulance simulator. ![]() Upon successful completion of the programs, students may be eligible to sit for the National Registry examination to become certified or licensed at the level they completed. The ambulance simulator enhances the education of students enrolled in GC’s three EMS programs: Emergency Medical Technician Marketable Skills Award (a basic program), Certificate of Completion in Paramedicine (an advanced program) and the Associate of Applied Science in Paramedicine (a two-year associate’s degree program). It also features the same tight space, introducing students to conditions they are likely to encounter on the job. Located in a classroom, the full-size replica of an ambulance’s box (patient compartment) houses the same equipment, supplies and storage its motorized counterpart carries in the field. ![]() The college’s Emergency Medical Services Program’s new ambulance simulator attracts a crowd of students eager to practice skills and complete training in the state-of-the-art instructional lab. There may not be sirens wailing in alarm but serious business is going on inside the Grayson College Health Sciences building. Ambulance simulator enhances Grayson College EMS program - printed from North Texas e-NewsĪmbulance simulator enhances Grayson College EMS program ![]()
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