\u201cThey were over the moon about the offer,\u201d Clinton Chichester said. \u201cGetting a simulator like this is hard; they\u2019re not available there. We just decided it would be nice to donate the old simulator to a school in need of this technology. We trained them in the use of the simulator when they were here. There were a few things that needed to be fixed before we sent it, which we did. The baby is now ready to go on its trip to Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n The simulators, which cost about $60,000, depending on model, give students practice in direct patient care. Connected to a computer, as well as all the monitors and equipment typically found in a hospital room, the mannequins mimic actual patients, with the ability to breath, speak, cry, sweat and even bleed. Monitors transmit vital signs, and the computer can simulate medical conditions such as an opioid overdose that students must respond to in real time.<\/p>\n The mannequin, a realistic representation of a three- to six-month-old infant, helps prepare students to interact with the most vulnerable patients in a safe environment. The baby simulator allows critical care interventions to be practiced, including infant CPR, airway management, drug administration and defibrillation, among others. \u201cWe are simulating a hospital environment and putting students in a situation where they have to think on their feet,\u201d Clinton Chichester said. \u201cThey learn how to provide treatment, but also how to conduct themselves, how to deal with patients on a personal level, how to deal with parents. They don\u2019t get much experience dealing with babies at all, so this is kind of unique.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" College\u2019s Patient Simulation Lab houses several life-size, animated mannequins to aid in student teaching, research Pharmacy students at a university in Ghana, will soon have access to a high-tech, lifelike baby simulator to practice patient care, thanks to a donation by the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy. The College\u2019s Patient Simulation Lab in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1710,"featured_media":52941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52944,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52940\/revisions\/52944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/pharmacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1223\/sim-babies-2-364x243.jpg\")
\nPharmacists, who are increasingly involved directly in critical patient care, must make decisions quickly, under the most stressful of circumstances, and be able to respond immediately if medications don\u2019t have the desired effect. It\u2019s one thing to plan a course of treatment ahead of time; it\u2019s quite another to make the critical call in the moment, when the patient\u2019s life hangs in the balance. There is simply no way for pharmacy students to know how they will respond when faced with such an emergency unless they\u2019re able to practice on the mannequins.<\/p>\n