Allied Health students prep a patient for surgery during a mock trauma event on campus April 24, 2025. [Photo by Jaclyn Shambaugh]
More than 100 students in FTCC’s Allied Health and Nursing programs participated in mock trauma response events on the Fayetteville campus Thursday, simulating real-life scenarios to hone their skills.
Simulations were held concurrently in the Health Technologies Center and in the Nursing Education & Simulation Center. Each scenario was designed to require student learning in different disciplines to work together to provide patient care.
“This is meant to give our students a real-world scenario,” said Dental Program Assistant Dean Sandra Walker, who helped organize the Allied Health event. “This is a cross-discipline event so the students can see how different disciplines come into work and how they correlate with each other in the real world.”
Allied Health students, including those in the Dental, EMS, Physical Therapy Assistant, Respiratory Therapy, Surgical Technology, and Medical Lab Technician programs, simulated a response to a mass shooting event staged inside FTCC’s Dental Lab in the HTC.
Dental students acted as victims and bystanders and provided immediate aid on the scene, treating multiple patients until students from the EMS program arrived. EMS treated and transported patients to surgical suite labs inside the HTC, where the patients were handed off to teams made of students from Nursing, Respiratory Therapy, Surgical Tech, and Medical Lab Tech for surgery.
A FTCC EMS student treats a Dental student posing as a patient in a mock trauma event on campus April 24, 2025. [Photo by Jaclyn Shambaugh]
Across campus, Nursing, EMS, and Respiratory Therapy students responded to a simulated incident of a pedestrian suffering significant injuries after being struck by a vehicle. In this scenario, one of FTCC’s state-of-the-art mannikins served as the patient, allowing the students to perform hands-on care of the patient.
EMS students responded to the scene outside of the NESC, loading the mannikin into FTCC’s training ambulance and transporting it to the trauma bay lab inside the NESC. Inside the lab, Nursing and Respiratory Therapy students treated the patient for head and chest wounds.
