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Events: 2009 Health and Safety Occupations Schedule
Health and Safety Occupations Summary
Friday, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m.
"The Simulated Simulations Lab"
Speaker: Lea Kesee, RN, MSN, Assistant Professor Health Sciences Division, Midland College
Saturday, 10:30 - 11:45 a.m.
"Teaching Critical Care Medicine in Afghanistan: Contrasting High Tech Medicine Practices with Religious Tradition"
Speaker: Bob Weidmann, Director of Respiratory Care Program, Midland College
Friday, February 20th, 9:30-11:00 a.m.
"The Simulated Simulations Lab"
Speaker: Lea Kesee, RN, MSN, Assistant Professor Health Sciences Division, Midland College
The target audience is the program that lacks the financial resources necessary for a high fidelity simulation center. Use multiple teaching methods to help students apply knowledge. There will be demonstrations on ways to simulate a simulation lab using a hybrid of lecture, media, SIMman software, cell phones, Blackboard, role play, and student participation. Attendance guarantees something you can use in your college settings.
Biography:
Lea Keesee, MSN, RN has been teaching Associate Degree Nursing students for 10 years, focusing in fundamentals and recently venturing into simulation. She has tried to replace lecture with role play and simulation to foster student learning. Currently, the Midland College ADN program has one high fidelity and one mid fidelity mannequin, but with the help of peers and colleagues, 50 students participate in simulated learning experiences each week. During the simulation experiences, students demonstrate nursing skills, use nursing judgment, and apply nursing knowledge. By the end of this semester, 120 students will have participated in a minimum of 12 simulated experiences. Mrs. Keesee has a BA from Texas A&M University (1988), a BSN from Texas Tech University Health Science Center (1991), and a MSN from West Texas A&M University (2001).
Saturday, February 21st, 10:30-11:45 a.m.
"Teaching Critical Care Medicine in Afghanistan: Contrasting High Tech Medicine Practices with Religious Tradition"
Speaker: Bob Weidmann, Director of Respiratory Care Program, Midland College
Bob Weidmann, Director of Respiratory Care at Midland College traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan to assist doctors and nurses of the 210-bed Wazir Akbar Khan hospital to launch the use of their first-ever ventilator. But, he brought back home so much more than he ever imagined - an entirely new view of his own country. “ We have so much here... You just can’t imagine, until you see how poor some of these people are. It is a place of such contrasts as well,” he continues. “I saw mud houses with satellite dishes.”
Biography:
Bob Weidmann has been a respiratory therapist in California, Utah and Texas for the past 30 years. He has both practiced respiratory care and taught at Midland College for going on 25 years. During that time, he has been involved in all aspects of the profession (i.e., management education, intensive care, patient transports, home care and hyperbaric medicine). Mr. Weidmann received a BS degree from Southern Utah University. In March 2007, he was given the opportunity to travel to Kabul, Afghanistan (not your typical tourist attraction). He was invited to teach doctors and nurses how to manage respiratory patients, particularly those requiring mechanical ventilation. As usual, he was not only the teacher but the student.
Health and Safety Occupations Section Chair: Becky Hammack, Midland College