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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Jan 22, 2014 9:09:46 GMT
Just a thought about playing the role of the confederate....
We have storyboards for our scenarios, which have the various states or stages of the scenario, with the physiology in and through that state. There is also some information on the storyboard that is useful for the confederate, the type of information that the mannequin cannot give, e.g. BM, cap refill time, temp, feel and look etc.
we hope to develop this further, to be as comprehensive as posssible, making the confederate role a little less difficult for someone to step into. It also means the faculty can concentrate more on the learners and less on what information they need to give to the confederate.
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Post by Princess Lae-rdal on Jan 23, 2014 12:22:43 GMT
This is definitely something I would be interested in. My biggest stumbling block I find, is the lack of medical knowledge, although it is improving. Also, none of the technicians in our school (7 in total - although not all simulation based) come from a medical background, so yes, storyboards would be a great help to everyone.
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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Jan 23, 2014 12:26:13 GMT
This is definitely something I would be interested in. My biggest stumbling block I find, is the lack of medical knowledge, although it is improving. Also, none of the technicians in our school (7 in total - although not all simulation based) come from a medical background, so yes, storyboards would be a great help to everyone. yeah we're looking at that too, a kind of "glossary of terms" that medics and clinicians use and what that means to the rest of us, or what that piece of kit is or looks like, only just started it but it's growing and developing all the time |
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Post by ender on Jan 24, 2014 15:54:22 GMT
Depends how much information you want them to have, it can be hard memorising things if you dont have a background knoweledge and also depends what you want the confederate to do, if its during the scenario we had small cards that can be given to the stooge so that when asked they can referance that. also have booklet of each scenario being used so the setup is easier for new staff
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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Mar 11, 2014 23:52:21 GMT
Depends how much information you want them to have, it can be hard memorising things if you dont have a background knoweledge and also depends what you want the confederate to do, if its during the scenario we had small cards that can be given to the stooge so that when asked they can referance that. also have booklet of each scenario being used so the setup is easier for new staff the booklet/template works really well both for new staff and for courses you run maybe only a couple/few times a year. we have a piece on our storyboard that includes set-up, some courses are more detailed than others, the plan is to standardise the amount of info for each course, e.g. is the patient on a bed, trolley or floor? does the patient have monitoring on and what? IV access at the start? wound dressings and where, maybe even a photo rather than saying 3 dressings in the right epigastric region. then what info do the participants need that the patient can't supply, BM, cap refill, core and peripheral temp, pupilary response, resonance on chest percussion, response to pain, oedeama, cyanosis etc some of that info doesn't have to be exact just within normal ranges or not, so once you understand the physiology better you can make it up yourself if you forget, e.g i know in the hypo scenario all parameters are normal except the BM is really low, around 0.7-1.0, and thats all i need to memorise |
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