MESA, AZ -- An intense, real world scenario plays out in a hospital room. It’s real enough to shake up an experience nurse even though it’s just a drill.
“You forget and just get in the moment,” said Banner Health nurse Denielle Headley.
From medical emergencies to child births, to blood withdraws, a new program will soon put nursing students to the test.
More than 70 high tech mannequins are used from infants to adults. Many are capable of screaming, talking, even bleeding.
Dr. Mark Smith with the Banner Simulation Medical Center said it’s the largest simulation center in the United States.
In two weeks, nurses will start training students for eight hospitals in Arizona.
The student nurses are videotaped. Instructors will then go over the tapes and show students what was done right and wrong.
They hope it will teach them to get better before they go out into the real world.
