BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – Baton Rouge General nurses took part in a moving-ambulance simulation designed to give hospital staff a firsthand look at the challenges paramedics and EMTs face while treating patients in the field.
Inside the back of an ambulance, space is limited, and conditions can change quickly. During the training, nurses experienced what paramedics deal with while treating a patient having a heart attack as the vehicle traveled down the road.
“It’s different when you’re in the back of an ambulance that’s moving very quickly and moving around in a confined space,” said Dr. Dan Goodbee, the East Baton Rouge Parish EMS medical director. He said the goal is to give nurses insight into what medics are doing in the field before hospital staff receive the patient…