Nursing Students And NOSM Students Come Together For Training Session

By: Nick Liard

Medical Lead of the Health Sciences North Simulation Lab, Dr. Rob Anderson went into cardiac arrest during a presentation at the Sim-Lab.

Thankfully it wasn’t real, but was a team exercise for 90 first-year Laurentian University nursing students and first year NOSM students.

Anderson says what they are trying to teach is teamwork, communication and creating an understanding that it takes a whole group of people to navigate a patient through safely.

He says as a hockey dad, you don’t see left wing practices and right defenseman practices, you have team practices.

Anderson says often you have doctors and nurses who go to school separately and only come together when it’s game day.

He hopes that these types of training sessions become the norm and help health care professionals work as a team.

HSN’s Sim-Lab provides training for first year students right up to health care professionals.