Banner Simulation Center (Coolest place on earth)!

So last Saturday, I went with a group that I volunteer with for the Cardon Children's Medical Center, to the Banner Simulation Center at the old Banner Mesa Hospital at Country Club and Brown.  I volunteer for the hospital ( Cardons) with a program called the Cardon Compass Program.  We help with events for the hospital and in return for volunteering we get to shadow people who work in the hospital and go on cool field trips like the one this past weekend.  Our wonderful leader, Lindsay, arranged for the group to take a tour of the Simulation Center.  It was the coolest thing ever!

In the Simulation Center, Registered Nurses who are certified to run simulation mannequins, teach new nurses who are just hired by Banner hospitals how to do procedures how Banner specifically wants them done and also make sure the experienced nurses are on top of their game!  These Mannequins are both high-fidelity and low-fidelity.  High-fidelity means that the mannequins have a chest that rise and falls when they breath, and pulses that you can feel, they also blink (which is really freaky!).  Low-fidelity means that they still have breath sounds and a heart beat, but the chest does not rise and fall.  Both of them can talk (Which is also really freaky!)

So what did we learn while on this tour?   First we learned how to change a dressing for IV's and central lines.  I think putting on the sterile gloves were the hardest part of that part!

Then we got to take a tour of the center! Since the center was a hospital they have every part of the hospital exactly the way it was, like the intensive care unit, the emergency room, the operating rooms, and regular patient rooms.  Our first stop was the intensive care unit, or ICU, where each of our groups went through a scenario.  In my scenario my guy went into cardiac arrest, so we had to perform CPR.  Of course me being the only CPR certified person I started it off.  Then we took turns! Now I know that if I really had to do it, I could.  I knew it was ingrained in my head, but there was still doubt that I wouldn't be able to remember when my adrenaline was pumping.  Now I know that I can haha.

I know I shouldn't be smiling, but I was kinda freaking out and then Lindsay took the picture!

This is the computer they were running everything off of.

So all in all this was probably one of the coolest things I have ever done!!!!!!!!