New River CTC hosts Interprofessional Day for medical students

BEAVER, WV (WVNS) – Combative children, drunk drivers and unresponsive patients -all of those things are part of a normal day in the E.R. and days medical students will soon face on a daily basis.

That is why New River CTC hosted an Interprofessional Day on Wednesday, April 24, 2024.

This day was for students in the ADN, EMT, LPN, Paramedic, Phlebotomy, Social Work, PTA, MLT, Medical Assisting, and Surgical Technology programs to experience real life healthcare scenarios through simulations.

Doctor Angela Strickland, the Interim Dean of Pre-professional and Transfer Programs at the college, said she is hopeful that students who leave the school will have a greater understanding of what to expect after they walk out of those doors thanks to events like this one.

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“They are getting the opportunity to see what jobs await them after they get their licenses. Our programs continue to grow here at New River, so we are having a good time integrating them into part of what they are going to experience when they graduate,” said Strickland.

A big part of the simulation was grouping together medical staff that will work side by side in a real hospital setting. LPN student Morgan Evans says working with future colleagues is all part of the job.

“It simulates real life. I’m not just going to work with LPNs. I’ll have my tech, I’ll have RNs, I’ll have the EMS – I’ll have them all in a hospital setting,” said Evans.

Along with medical mannequin dolls, living and breathing patients filled the rooms with medical issues of their own.

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Amber Clere played the part of a misunderstood teen girl with communication issues.

Clere touched on how unpredictable children can be and why it is so important to be able to handle these types of situations.

“They’re very unpredictable; you never know what they are going to say, how they are going to react to their family, what’s going on in their own family, what they are going to say inside of these ‘hospital rooms’,” said Clere.

Most of the students who attended the event will be onto their final clinicals after this trial. The staff and professionals wished them good luck on their future endeavors.

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