1. How did it feel to work in the stressful environment of an emergency situation? Did you like the adrenaline rush and feel like you worked better or did it just make you nervous?
2. Did you enjoy your roles in the simulation sessions - did you want to be more of a leader directing the actions of others or more of a worker getting the job done?
3. What was your favorite part of the simulations?
8 comments:
1. I really enjoyed the simulations. It got a little tense and at times I was like ahhhhhh! but it was a very cool experience.
Amazingly, I actually liked working in the emergency situations. I thought that it would make me uptight and I wouldn't know what to do but it really didn't bother me. I guess because I knew it wasn't a real person but I was surprised at how much I remembered about heart attacks. So, overall I really enjoyed working on the simulations!
It was great. I was a little stressed out because Dr. Palm (is that his name?) was hinting that we had to do something else but we had no idea what. It was so much fun though. I tried to step up and be a leader because I'm bossy so it's easy for me. (ha) But it was cool because I actually got to use my CPR skills outside of Wellness class, on a talking dummy instead of a dirty one. It was also finding out the different places to find a pulse, recognizing lung problems with a stethoscope, and learning the strength and skill it takes to intubate. Poor dummy though. He would have died if he were real.
1. I thought it was fun rather than stressful although that might be because I wasn't taking it very seriously cause I knew it was a dummy.
2. I think I liked my non-leader role even though I wasn't very helpful.
3. Actually applying simple stuff we've learned from powerpoints and talks to real life situations and being able to actually intubate :D!
1. Saving someone’s life in an emergency situation can certainly give one an adrenaline rush. The adrenaline rush can have positive and negative effects in which the adrenaline rush keeps you on track with time but the rush also can inhibit your thinking and strategy- when there's too much of it.
2. In the flight simulation...hmmm... being the arrogant, obnoxious country music star was a farce. He didn't like blood, he had to sit first class, and he found it unreasonable to not have a personal chef. Thinking back, I wish I had been one of the attendants. I had a couple of ideas for helping the passengers stay calm, like moving all of the noncritical passengers to the front of the cabin and leaving a couple of personnel with the passengers to secure the area. So by this, the other attendants could help the critical patient/passenger.
3. My favorite part of the simulations was the ER simulation. The electrocardiograms, the simulated vital signs, intubations, the medicines, CPR, and the shocks- I can't forget that experience.
1. I almost had an anxiety attack during the first simulation; too many things were registering at once.
2. My role as an appointed "leader," (while not a functioning leader) really only served to work me into a frenzy during the first simulation. My character was supposed to be high-strung new mother, awaiting a performance review (perhaps also at risk for a nervous breakdown...). and I think my acting was pretty spot on as far as that goes. I would have loved to be a spectator.
3. My favorite part was the end.
well since i wasn't in the airplane scenario it wasn't a huge adrenaline rush but it was still really fun to work with the sim man.
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