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Patient Simulation
The Faulkner State Community College nursing faculty
presents its dramatic “Texting While Driving” simulation
to more than 1,000 high school and college students.
Faulkner State Community College
Fairhope, USA
In a dark auditorium packed with more than
1,000 high school and college students, all eyes
are transfixedonanemergency roomreenactment.
A medical team has been working to resuscitate
a 17-year-old driver who has suffered multiple
injuries in an auto accident. According to the
911 call, the young driver had been witnessed
swerving and texting while driving. As the
teen’s sister stands by his side and the mother
wails for her son, the emergency room nurse
delivers devastating news. In the final scene,
the team zips the teenager into a body bag and
wheels him away.
Faulkner State Community College in
Alabama uses patient simulation to teach nursing
and health sciences students to respond to
patient trauma. The faculty has also created a
simulation to raise community awareness about
the dangers of texting while driving.
The scenario was conceived by two of
the college’s adjunct faculty; ER Nurse Carman
Godfrey and Flight Nurse Valarie Rumbley. “Both
of them see traumatic events on a regular basis,
and they had seen numerous textingwhile driving
injuries,” said Faulkner State Nursing Instructor
Katrina Allen-Thomas. “It was their vision, and they
had a really strong conviction about it.”
During the hour-long reenactment, a
moulaged iStan rapidly transitions to bradycardia
and asystole.
The vision of FSCC is to encourage others to
use their simulation to reach their communities
regarding the hazards of texting and driving. “I
know this is going to take us places because it
already has, ”Allen-Thomas said. “Every day, I get 15
to 20 e-mails that say, ‘thank you so much.’ I know
we’ve saved a life along the way.”
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