Nurses at Commonwealth Health Wilkes-Barre General Hospital Receive Gift from Medical Staff

8/25/2021

Nurses at Commonwealth Health Wilkes-Barre General Hospital will now have the opportunity to take part in more advanced, hands on learning thanks to the medical staff, who recently presented them with a simulation manikin, designed specifically for nursing education.

This simulation manikin is the first nursing simulator to cover every aspect of modern nursing education. The manikin can present realistic vital signs, show signs of consciousness, and allow nurses the ability to perform fundamental therapeutic procedures. These features are critical to the learner’s patient assessment, and will provide an opportunity to conduct physiological monitoring.

“We want to provide nurses with a safe and effective learning environment,” says Michael Rupp, M.D., cardiologist and Wilkes-Barre General Hospital medical staff president. “This learning modality helps promote an environment for nurses to focus on critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and clinical judgment – in addition to acquiring skills.”

Through scenario-based training, nurses are able to safely and realistically practice a variety of core skills such as basic assessments and diagnosis skills, critical thinking and advanced interventions. With this interactive, real-world learning experience, nurses at Commonwealth Health Wilkes-Barre General Hospital will be able to achieve success and gain confidence in a safe environment.

Nurses’ educational needs are often addressed through a combination of classroom teaching and review of policy and procedure at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. However, some educational needs require a certain level of “hands on” learning and engagement in order to be effective.

“We would like to thank the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital medical staff for recognizing this need and seeking the opportunity to not only support the staff education process but nurses in general,” says Dale Johns, CEO of Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. “This technology will help our nurses’ develop skills that will allow them to provide optimal patient care.”

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