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Nurse's Week: Life-Like Demos For USCB
Tuesday, May 06, 2008 - 06:00 PM Updated: 06:18 PM
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Save This PageThis week is National Nurses Week and soon those who want to be nurses will have a new school to choose from: the University of South Carolina Beaufort.
The nursing program will be up and running for the spring of 2009.
News 3's Randi Hempel shows us the latest technology students will have the chance to learn from.
A USCB employee just met I-Stan. Hes the latest and greatest simulation technology. He runs off a wireless laptop, a technology the school is considering for their new nursing program.
“The fact that this mannequin can vocalize and say what their symptoms are then it makes it more real life and lifelike to the student.” Says Mary Ann Jarmulowicz, R.N., USCB in the Nursing Department.
I-Stan can be programmed with all the parameters of an illness and then instructors can walk their students through treatment procedures. The simulator will even receive different amounts of medications administered through a computer. All features instructors say are extremely beneficial for students before they enter the real world of medicine.
"What we're looking at with the individual is to provide a safe learning environment for our students where they can where they can be in a hospital type setting without being at the hospital.” Says Mary Ann Jarmulowicz, R.N., USCB in the Nursing Department.
That way when their patient is not an I-Stan, but a Stan or Stannette they'll know exactly what to do.
There are about 135 I-Stans in existence. The Army owns more than 30, the state of Georgia, 3, and 100 others were purchased by medical schools and teaching hospitals.