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Virtual Reality Collaboration with Dr. Brian Ricks at the University of Nebraska at Omaha
Click here to learn more about our virtual reality simulation which allows you to experience triage in a hospital that has taken direct damage from a storm.
These are images and explanations of three different simulation activities commonly provided by the HEROES project:
This is a hospital decontamination exercise that was conducted at Nebraska Orthopedic Hospital in Omaha, NE.
This exercise was unique in that it included both a washing component with nursing students and then was followed by a human patient simulator patient care scenario in the emergency department trauma bay. The most ill patient, a victim of organophosphate exposure, was transitioned in the scenario from the male nursing student to the Sim Man manikin. At the end of the scenario, the nursing students were allowed to perform intubation on the patient to better understand how to support clinicians who perform the clinical skill.
This is a triage simulation conducted at many educational institutions throughout the state of Nebraska each year.
This exercise was on the Omaha campus of the University of Nebraska Medical Center for the College of Nursing. A class of about 80 students are taught basic triage concepts and then a small cohort is asked to perform them.
A majority of the students play victims in the scenario using victim cards with injury details. Where appropriate, moulage make up and wounds are applied to the victims. They are encouraged to be enthusiastic in their portrayal of the incident.
Three pairs of students are identified as responders (colored vests) and share a walkie talkie radio that transmits back to a student in the classroom acting as the incident commander. This student records the scene information on number of victims and acuity. The simulation ends once all victims in the scenario are tagged. A formal debriefing follows the simulation experience.
This is an emergency care simulation at Johnson County Hospital in Tecumseh, NE.
The HEROES project has always broadly defined emergency preparedness education to include emergency care scenarios in rural areas such as critical access hospitals. These situations often require immediate care as well as coordination of transport to a higher level of care.
For more information about the HEROES project: www.unmcheroes.org.
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