Well I just got back from our disaster training day. It was interesting; I’ll give it that. If you don’t know what that is, our school simulated a disaster this morning. The radiology, nursing, paramedic, and poly science students made a hospital out of our science building. The nursing labs are set up like hospital wards anyway, complete with beds, machines, monitors, and all that other equipment. So the nursing students set up an Emergency room and an Urgent care.

People where chosen to be victims (complete with blood and make-up wounds) and the paramedic students got to practice bringing the patients in and then the nursing students cared for them in the ER and urgent care. There were a couple of doctors there and they would send patients over to the radiology students to take scans and pictures of. The Medivac helicopter brought a couple of dummy patients in by air this morning as well. The poly sci, future cops I should say, students spent all day investigating the crime scene.

Let me tell you, some of those people were damn good role players. I was manning the ER room, and there were people yelling, moaning, and crying all day. There was also some domestic violence going on and a couple of drunks, complete with like 3 fights in the ER today.

All in all, it was MASS confusion. Organized chaos you’d call it. Victims coming in all morning, fights, moving patients to radiology or between the ER and urgent care, crying, yelling, trying to find the doctor, and on top of that actually trying to hear to take vitals signs or get information out of the patients. Trying to maneuver those huge beds out the doors, while other beds are being moved, patients wondering the halls on us, running into each other... oh yeah. It got so loud often on today with all the chaos. I am enjoying the peace and quiet in front of my computer now, let me tell you.

But we survived it. And 4 weeks left to graduation! I am counting down the days.