If you drove by Oral Roberts University this morning you may have seen commotion and emergency workers. The nursing school presented a re-enactment of the deadly stage collapse from the Indiana State Fair in 2011.
Channel 8's Kim Jackson explains why this scenario was so important for students.
Normally, nursing students would do all of this in a lab. But today, they were outside and getting a life like lesson.
There was no incident or disaster on the campus of Oral Roberts University--but it sure looked like it!
"It's intense but I love that we got to do this, just for the experience and to kind of get our feet wet," said Lauren Escobego. "And something we have not experienced just yet."
Lauren is graduating soon--preparing to become a trauma nurse. Today she dealt with a fake broken bone--
"I kinda sterilized it, tried to like flush it out with saline, then covered it as best as I could," she said.
There were 19-nursing students--and dozens of fans--who attended--the make believe concert. Some of the fans--pretended their wounds were deadly.
"They are learning how to triage, how to prioritize and how to stabilize scene and that is basically what I wanted them to get out of this," said Assistant Nursing Professor, Cheryl Swanson.
There was a real life rush--of emergency workers--from land and from the air.
"Disasters are very unexpected and just being in the medical profession like if you are on the scene, you are expected to help, but you don't have any real medication or equipment on you, necessarily, in that moment," said Lauren.
This may have been extremely dramatic--but to Lauren--it was a real lesson.
"I'm very excited--I'm ready."
Once the make up is washed up and the students are all cleaned up, they'll go back to the classroom and talk about what they have learned.
