{"id":109562,"date":"2026-05-07T16:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=109562"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:40:19","slug":"disaster-response-nursing-simulation-set-for-may-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2026\/05\/disaster-response-nursing-simulation-set-for-may-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Disaster response Nursing simulation set for May 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University Nursing students will get first-hand experience responding to emergency situations during a disaster training exercise planned for Friday, May 15.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted during National Nursing Week by the Department of Nursing\u2019s concurrent Bachelor of Nursing\/Master of Nursing program (BNMN), the \u201ccode orange\u201d simulation will see 30 BNMN students rapidly triage high-fidelity mannequin patients and live actors portraying victims in a fictitious emergency scenario.<\/p>\n<p>The immersive training exercise, which begins at 1:30 p.m. behind East Academic Buildings 2 and 3, will include sirens, smoke machines and a simulated explosion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re also bringing emergency medical services and firefighters on site for the first time and will record the scenarios to develop a virtual reality game,\u201d said Vanessa Silva e Silva, Associate Professor and course instructor.<\/p>\n<p>As well as serving as guest speakers, the paramedics and firefighters will be on standby so students can practice transferring a cardiac arrest patient to an ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re enhancing the interprofessional collaboration piece,\u201d said Magdalena Dobosiewicz, Graduate Program Clinical Supervisor.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s expanded training area will feature designated treatment zones, barricaded access points and emergency vehicles positioned nearby to mirror real response conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University Nursing students will get first-hand experience responding to emergency situations during a disaster training exercise planned for Friday, May 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":109566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,54],"tags":[12422,15139,488,7488,12849,5541,3335,3330,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109567,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109562\/revisions\/109567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}