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Lisa Peyton writes: "Surrounded by darkness, the looming 20-foot skull is so close I can touch it. With the click of a mouse, the 3-D model of the human head and neck pivots, and I’m inside the eye socket examining this complex system from the inside out. It’s A viewpoint typically reserved for surgeons on the operating table; I’m amazed by the scale and detail of the mechanism that gives us the miracle of sight."
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Yale Nursing Matters via Yale News
Two Yale School of Nursing students stood beside Sophia’s hospital bed as they introduced themselves to the 81-year-old patient. She had fallen the day before at her son’s home, hurting her hip.
“I think I’m OK, but my leg just started hurting a lot more,” Sophia said sounding distressed. “Where is your pain and what does it feel like?” asked one student. Observing these interactions, via video from an adjacent room, was a group of five nursing students.
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Learning English
Felicia Luna had a really bad headache. She said the painful pressure felt “like someone was squeezing my head really tight.”
The pain became so bad that the 41-year-old woman could not lie down and rest her head on a pillow. Her main doctor and a specialist told Luna that she needed to stop worrying.
Then, she went to the Stanford Medical Center in California.
There, she was told doctors needed to operate on an aneurysm in her brain. And they needed to act quickly.
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Keith Carlson
With the recent announcement that pharmacy giant CVS is buying Aetna in a multibillion-dollar health insurance/pharmacy services merger, the consolidation of the healthcare industry has taken a giant step in a direction that can be characterized as both forward and backward, depending on your perspective. Doubtless, the landscape is changing for consumers and healthcare providers alike.
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The Newstand
Gunshots crackled as a man dressed in camouflage sat on the ground with a red stream trickling from his ear and a purple splotch marking the skin near his cheekbone. A medic asked what happened.
“A clown ran up, balloon popped,” the man replied incoherently.
It sounds like a scene out of a war zone, but the man was an actor at a simulation center in Columbia, South Carolina, where researchers from Clemson University and Palmetto Health were recording the events as part of a $1.6 million project funded by the Department of Defense.
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WEWS-TV
They might seem completely different, but fighter pilots and brain surgeons actually have a lot in common. Their jobs are high risk and they have to get them done in a limited time frame, under a lot of stress. Their training is pretty similar, too.
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WBZ-TV
She looks real. She feels real. She sounds real. And she’s no dummy.
She’s a wireless robot that is the world’s most advanced neonatal patient simulator, recently called into service at Boston Children’s Hospital. Super Tory resembles an 8-pound baby and can virtually recreate any neonatal medical emergency.
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New Sentinel Town™ is a rural community simulation inspired by the award-winning Sentinel City®. Designed by nurse educators, it provides students with simulated clinical hours and practice experience through completion of various assignments using the rural environment. This simulation comes with multiple complete assignments with AACN Essentials mapping and grading rubrics, as well as additional faculty resources.
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“Simulation made easy…” , our goal is to make your training more effective, expanding the range of your training , not your training complications. We have been helping medical and emergency service educators deliver better training outcomes with their students and staff for over 50 years- SIMULAIDS: “Training for Life.”
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Becker's Hospital Review
Hospitals can't provide high-quality care if patient misidentification occurs, as the errors resulting from misidentification can have significant consequences for patient safety and the organizations' financial health. Patient misidentification is challenging for most hospitals. Patients are misidentified 7 to 10 percent of the time, based on a Rand Corp. analysis cited by The Wall Street Journal.
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Indiana University
Managing high-risk situations as a new nurse can be stressful. Imagine the pressure of performing advanced cardiac life support on a patient for the first time or the intensity of caring for a baby born addicted to opioids who is experiencing withdrawal.
These situations leave little room for nurses to make mistakes, but a newly accredited simulation lab at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus is allowing students to practice skills in a controlled environment and decrease future mistakes in clinical settings.
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MIT Technology Review
New pill capsules that send a message to a smartphone as they move through the GI tract have emerged as a way to track whether patients are taking their medicine as prescribed. The problem of nonadherence to medication instructions causes about 125,000 deaths a year and at least 10 percent of hospitalizations, according to one estimate. Soon the ingestible tracking technology could also be used to make sure patients aren’t taking too many of drugs like opioids, which are highly addictive.
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WPBN/WGTU-TV
Future EMTs and paramedics in northern Michigan have a new tool that will provide them with more training.
Baker College of Cadillac has donated a full-scale ambulance simulator to Munson Regional EMS Education.
The simulator works just like the inside of an ambulance, so that students feel like they are responding to real emergencies.
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