The college’s Nursing and Theatre Departments teamed up for a mock mass casualty event that turned an ordinary Monday into a scene straight out of a daytime television drama.
The exercise was designed to train nursing students in mass triage, testing how they would respond to a real-life disaster situation. Several students, from the Theatre Department and beyond helped by transforming their classmates into accident victims with realistic special-effects makeup, fake wounds, and plenty of fake blood.
“My favorite part of this was seeing everyone’s reactions to all the chaos,” said first-year student Sam Pitzer, who took part in the simulation. “One girl looked like she was going to cry afterwards.”…