Nursing students, UVAC participate in disaster simulation, media report
WVII (Channel 7), WABI (Channel 5) and WLBZ (Channel 2) reported on a disaster simulation held at the University of Maine for students in the School of Nursing and University Volunteer Ambulance Corps (UVAC). The event featured a simulated bus accident and 31 student actors with a range of injuries, including those that were life-threatening. The simulation was held to provide hands-on training for 34 UMaine senior nursing students in a 400-level community and population health class, led by assistant professor Kelley Strout. The students were evaluated on their disaster response, including triage of victims. “They’ve been doing excellent,” Aiden Koplovsky, assistant chief of UVAC, told WVII. “A lot of things that people will notice is that this is very slow, things don’t happen very fast in an incident like this. There’s a lot of moving parts and a lot of things to get done. They’ve been doing a great job, they’re staying very calm very collected and very organized.”