GRETCHEN GREGORY: "That's not something that we teach in school, but that's when falls happen and that's when nurses get hurt."
She says the safe practices room has special equipment, including a life-size
mannequin
doll. This "patient" can be made to weigh as much as one hundred fifty-nine kilograms.
GRETCHEN GREGORY: "We have a mannequin that we can fill up with water and he becomes a three-hundred-and-fifty-pound mannequin that they have to learn to use this transfer equipment to get patients in and out of bed or from another bed to a stretcher."
Ms. Gregory says most American hospitals have lifting equipment to help nurses move patients. But she says the equipment is often pushed back in a corner somewhere -- unused and forgotten. She says the safe practices room teaches the importance of using the tools and skills available.
GRETCHEN GREGORY: "Teaching students to take the extra time to use those and learning how to use them well and efficiently is going to be a key to helping prevent back injuries."
The training room also seeks to improve communication skills and other practices in a setting designed to copy a busy hospital or clinic.
GRETCHEN GREGORY: "If we provide an environment where everything’s nice and quiet and they can give their
medications
or they can communicate to a physician when there’s nothing going on, that’s not really a real-life setting. They have to be able to do it with some distraction."
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