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FRIDAY, MARCH 14 to SUNDAY MARCH 16, 2014 VOLUME 109 ISSUE 65
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!"#$%&'(%)'%*+,$%&'-.+&.'$%'-*#*(/'0(+#%.+,1$0 FADI YOUKHANA Associate News Editor Students have teamed up to act and diagnose emotionally charged situations for the purpose of creating and participating in an environment that benefits both fields. between the The cooperation betwe ween th he and Department of Theatre an nd Dance Nursing and the Department of Nu urs r ing g iss Unipart of a new partnership at tthe he U ni-ni under versity of Hawai!i at M noa un nde derr th the e HealthCAST project. “Simulation learning is a wonderful opportunity for students to take all the information we give them in the textbooks and labs about distogether eases and to put it all togeth t er and practice and perform the applicaoff tth the tion ti on no he method in a safe eenvironnvironment,” Lorrie Wong, m me nt,” nt ,” ssaid aiid Lo orr r ie eW ong, the he direcUniversity Hawai!i ttor to orr off tthe he U he nivvers ni ers rsit i y of H it awai!i at M noa Translational Health M no n aT raan anslat ansl latio iona n lH na ealth Science Center School Simulation n Cen nte terr in tthe he S chool of ch Dental Hygiene. Nursing and d De D ntal al H y ie yg ene ne. Wong, According to Wong g, the nursposing students have responded po p shave itively to the experience and ha h ve post-simasked for more actors in post-si siimm ulation evaluations. want off “All the students wan antt mo more re o because makes these simulations be beca cause it mak kes prepare be it easier to pre epaare e tthem he em to b e a nurse,” Wong g said. d. curriculum, IIn n llast ast yyear’s eaar’s r’s cu r’ curr rrric i ulum um, the th thee students preformed emotionally ater stu ude dent nts pr nt pref effor orme rme med em mot oti tio iona iona nalllllly y charged situations, which included char ch arge ar ged ge d si situ ituat ati tions ions ns,, wh whi ich in ich ic cllud uded Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, P Po ost s -Traum T u attic i S tress Disord der e, psychodeath, abuse cases and nd other psy ych c osituations. social emotionall sit ituations. senior Perry Students, likee se eni n or o P erry er ry TsuTsuruoka who rru uok okaa wh ho participated ed iin n th thee pr prooyear, enjoy gram last ye ear, ar, en ar enjo oy th thee re rrealaladded ism dimension adde ded d by the the e
theater students to the emotionally charged situations. “Many times when it was just the part mannequin and a voice, it felt as if p artt ar Tsuruoka of the realism was missing,” Tsuru ruok okaa people said. “The chance to use real peop ople le iin n more our scenarios not only gave us a m ore or e encounrealistic sense of what we will enco coun un-later, terr la te late ter, r, but also enabled us to o ac actt more naturally.” order targeted In n or orde derr to perform m the targe gete ted d condition accurately, the cond co ndit itio ion n ac accu currately, th he theater st stuudents underwent complex dent de ntss un unde derw rwe ent com mplex preparaprep par araation ti on aand nd rrehearsal. ehea eh ears rsal. The students start sta tart rt researching by researchi h ng tthe he ccondition ond dition with th the e HealthCAST help of Alex Munro, HealthCA AST rehearse coordinator, and create and rehear arse se an improvisational script. “Theater students then work with our professional content experts who help them fine-tune their role,” Wong said. “A content expert is like a nurse who works specialist in psychosocial care.” The students then review recordings of their performance and receive feedback from faculty, theaterr ffac acul ulty ty,, Munro Munr Mu nro o an and d th the e nursing students. dent de ntss.
“The theater students have been spot on,” Wong said. “It really has to do with the process that we undertake unde un d rt r ake in order to train the simulated u ul atted patients.” Prior P rior ri or to receiving help from m theater nursing the th e th thea eate ter students, nu ursing st stuudents used dent de ntss us u ed high-fidelity mannequins. mann ma nneq equi uins n . Continued Cont Co ntin inued on ppage age 2 ag
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Students from the Department of Theatre and Dance work with prospective nurses to prepare them for psychosocial emotional situations.
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