Sheldon, Iowa — More than 30 high school students from Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn, Rock Valley and Trinity Christian high schools were on hand at Northwest Iowa Community College in Sheldon Tuesday to explore health-related career fields.
The day began with mini-sessions in which the program instructors from the college’s EMS, Nursing, Radiologic Technology, Medical Lab Technology, Health Information Technology and Medical Coding programs explained their respective career fields and NCC’s programs.
Following the mini-sessions, the high school students observed an emergency care simulation performed by NCC instructors, in which all of NCC’s healthcare programs worked together just like in a real emergency situation.
The simulation began with SCAT bringing the “patient” into the college from a simulated car crash in the parking lot. Once inside the ER (NCC Health Labs) the instructors took over the simulation using state-of-the-art mannequin simulation technology to play the role of the patient. When the “patient” was stabilized, the last step of the simulation was to prepare the “patient” for transport by Sanford AirMed to Sioux Falls.
The only wrinkle was that Sanford AirMed wasn’t able to attend due to being dispatched to a real emergency elsewhere.
If you’d like to view a few images from Monday’s EMS simulation at NCC, you can view them below……….
