CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – Third-year students from Austin Peay State University’s schools of Nursing and Radiology joined forces on Wednesday for interdisciplinary simulation exercises, providing vital experience in real world practice.
Third-year students from the two programs were placed in groups and given scenarios to act on. The first of these scenarios involved a human actor playing the part of a patient who had recently suffered a seizure. Students receive their scenario during a joint simulation exercise between nursing and radiology
Students were tasked with checking the patient’s condition and performing an X-ray. Their scenario was turned up a notch when their patient surprised them with a second seizure in the middle of the scenario, necessitating quick thinking from the nurses and rad technologists in training.
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