On Friday, November 1st, twenty members of the Madison HOSA Chapter attended Sanford Sights and Sounds. They participated in a three-part event that included a tour of the Parry Simulation Center, a presentation about Nursing 360, and a tour of the Sanford Hospital.
While in the Parry Simulation Center, the students got a tour of the different types of rooms they had set up for various simulations. They have three rooms made to look like a recovery room and one operating, progress care, and intensive care room. While in the intensive care room, the students got to observe three different ultrasounds. They saw an ultrasound of the neck, eye, and wrist. The students learned how to identify the difference between a vein and an artery on an ultrasound and eye ultrasounds are used to check the health of the back of the eye. In the operating room, the students got to feel pulses, listen to heart, lung, and bowel sounds, observe dilation of the eyes, and give chest compressions.
Brock Rops, the executive director of South Dakota HOSA, gave a brief presentation about the new program he is working on called “Nursing 360.” This program is for students who are seriously considering becoming nurses, and students wanting to learn more about the different pathways you can take as a nurse. Rops hopes this program will help students discover different fields of nursing that they didn’t even know existed. After his presentation, the students played a Kahoot about nursing facts. Many of the students learned new things about the field that they found very interesting.
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