Wednesday, February 22, 2012

ORU Nursing Students Hold Disaster Drill On Tulsa Campus

TULSA, Oklahoma - As nursing students, it is sometimes difficult to assimilate exactly what a genuine disaster would be like. So Wednesday, Oral Roberts University's nursing students got a chance to take a dip in to a genuine world. "You go in to it thinking you're fully prepared. You get in here, everything is going crazy. People are running around as well as pretty quickly it all just goes out a air," said ORU nursing student, Ryan Ward. It looks real, but it's all part of a mock disaster situation at Oral Roberts University. Senior nursing studentsin ORU's Anna Vaughn College of Nursingrecreated a Indiana State Fair disaster, where a stage collapsed, murdering 5 people as well as injuring 40 others. It took place on campus early Wednesday in afield between a Learning Resources Center as well as Christ's Chapel. "They have to learn which they can't save everybody, which they have to move on to those which are viable as well as so what we're trying to learn them to do is just really move from one to another as well as stabilize those which they can as well as just do a best they can in saving everybody which can be saved," said ORU nursing instructor Cherly Swanson. With a small help from trained initial responders, a ORU nursing students say this mock experience felt like a genuine deal. "Life as well as death situations for people. You're able to see it initial hand, you know. Seeing kids, you don't know if they need help. You think which they do. You got people which are in vicious situations which they need it immediately. You got to have tough decisions," said Ryan Ward. Swanson additionally hopes this activity will help a students assimilate which more training is a must. AirEvac, Tulsa Police, Tulsa Fire, ORU Campus Police as well as area hospitals all assisted in this exercise. Powered By iWebRSS.co.cc


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