Acute Care Simulation Builds Samford Students’ Interprofessional Health Care Skills

By Sarah Waller, Samford University

In the hallway of Samford University’s Experiential Learning and Simulation Center, a “standardized” patient stumbled to the ground to simulate a patient experiencing cardiac arrest. The Doctor of Physical Therapy student who was with him jumped into action and called a code. Within seconds, an interprofessional team of students gathered.

Undergraduate nursing students took over CPR, Doctor of Pharmacy students prepared the needed medications and Master of Social Work students attended to the patient’s family. This is just one scenario that students were able to experience together during the College of Health Sciences’ annual Acute Care Simulation.

This large-scale event is designed to build students’ knowledge and skills not only to care for their patients but also to work together as an interprofessional health care team. Over the course of two days, roughly 250 students, representing programs in each of the college’s four schools, took part.

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