Emergency Care Simulator provides human reactions to help students respond to serious situations

The Crimson White Online -By the fall, all of the critical courses in the UA nursing curriculum will be using METI, said Becky Edwards[O5], director of facilities, technology and distance education in the college and who, along with Adams, serves as one of the college's two METI coordinators.

"With an average dummy, our students can do a lot of skills such as bandaging, but it doesn't respond," Edwards said.

Before this semester, students practiced with an average dummy and pretended to see responses that a human would have, but they couldn't see what actually happened, Adams said.

Now those students can see the effect of their action on the patient. Students are learning how drugs react with the body, how different diagnoses affect the body and how to make critical decisions related to different situations from METI.

"Students can see the laboratory experience, so when they get to in the hospital, they can make better decisions," Adams said.