CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Future healthcare workers at Kirkwood Community College got a taste of real emergency response Tuesday morning during a full-scale simulation inside the Katz Family Healthcare Simulation Center.
Students from Kirkwood’s Nursing, Paramedic, and Respiratory Therapy programs worked side-by-side to assess and stabilize “patients” in mock critical care scenarios.
The exercise took place inside the college’s 12,000-square-foot simulation center, the first fully integrated multidisciplinary healthcare simulation facility in Iowa…