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Kristen Smith posted an update in the group
Pediatric Simulation Group Hello everyone, I am a new moderator for this group. Please feel free to message me with topics or ideas. For now I’d like everyone to share one of their favorite pediatric simulations to do and explain why? I’ll start: I love a simulation we have been doing for years, it is on a 6 m/o who is having respiratory problems and gets diagnosed with RSV during the sim. I have the students watch some skill video’s as a part of their pre-briefing and then we run the case. They will have to admit the child to the peds unit, talk to mom, get the baby on appropriate oxygen, perform suction/chest physiotherapy, give a nebulizer, administer multiple medications via IV, and perform education. Our debriefing includes discussion of each ‘problem’ the child had and what we did to fix it as well as what else we could have done. The students learn so much throughout the simulation! Can’t wait to hear everyone else’s favorites :)
Lance W Baily9 Comments-
Thanks so much for joining us and for supporting this new Pediatric Simulation group as a moderator @Kristen ! My favorite scenario is a simple one, with a patient who has yet to be diagnosed with diabetes — as this was my very first real patient when training as an EMT-B. Didn’t take us long to realize the teenager needed sugar STAT!
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@Lance Awesome example, simulations don’t need to always be fancy in order to get the point across.
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My favorite is one is a 5yr-old child snake bite scenario that we do with our mobile unit at different outpatient clinics within our systems more rural settings . It’s a fairly straight forward scenario, feedback is always positive, and most learners report having more confidence and less fear about handling this situation in real life if it were to occur. A few years ago I received a heartfelt thank you note from a clinic that successfully treated a toddler bitten by a rattlesnake during playtime at a park only a few days after our snakebite simulation happened at their clinic.
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@Julie Oh wow, you must be someplace that had snakes! We only have garden snakes up in Michigan. This is important information for people to learn about, great example.
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@Kristen We also do an RSV/Bronchiolitis scenario, but ours is much more stripped down. We essentially just want our learners to recognize the need for suctioning and perform suctioning prior to feeding. A lot of our students want to go straight to oxygen administration, which really doesn’t help a snot-nosed baby much. Thanks for sharing!
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@Nate Absolutely, they can oxygenate the child if they are full of secretions. And not all sims need to be fancy – this is one of the higher tech ones for us but we also use lower fidelity.
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We are piloting a pediatric diabetes simulation. The 9 year old was diagnosed with DMT1 about 4 weeks ago and this is her first sickness. The setting is an Urgent Care and the child comes in with headache and sore throat with an exposure to strep and rhinovirus from brother. When the medical assistant gives them report, there is a discrepancy in the blood sugar and she did not ask medications or allergies. Her note is very basic. The students are to investigate further, perform a throat and nose swab as well as educate parent on sick day rules. This simulation is for second semester ADN students.
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I currently do not do a diabetes sim but it is something I’ve been looking into adding. Very important to cover because Type 1 acts so differently than Tyle 2 at times and people get so scared when it is a child with diabetes. Thanks!
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@Kristen I would be happy to share my thoughts and ideas on how we are doing the simulation.
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