Kernel Editorial Board
The age old adage “practice makes perfect” may not always be true, but for senior nursing students, the practice represents the perfect situation.
A Feb. 16 Kernel article documented the heart attack of Henry Wall, also known as SimMan. SimMan is one of five robots the College of Nursing uses to perform simulations as routine as breathing and as serious as a heart attack.
The clinical simulations facility at UK consists of more than 10,000 square feet of labs and classrooms dedicated to training nursing students.
The facility is there for students to use these robots to learn from a controlled and simulated emergency situation. And it is there that UK is being set apart from other nursing schools across the nation. Read More…
