Working Together<\/a> conference and exposition Jan. 24-27 at the Wisconsin Center. The \u201cRescue Task Force\u201d simulation gave groups of emergency medical responders an opportunity to practice working with law enforcement on a simulated mass shooting. The responders had to deploy into areas that had been cleared but not yet secured to treat and rescue victims.<\/p>\n\nThe College of Nursing volunteers included faculty, staff and students who joined a group of fire cadets to play victims. The application of fake blood, bruises and wounds prepared the volunteers for their roles. They then spread out into a stairwell at the Wisconsin Center, where they lay moaning, groaning and screaming.<\/p>\n
The volunteer effort grew out of the College of Nursing\u2019s partnership with local fire departments to train fire department paramedics in community-based health care. When Milwaukee Fire Department Capt. Michael Wright, who works with that partnership, reached out looking for volunteers for the training exercise, said Kim Litwack, dean of nursing, the college was happy to put the word out.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was cool to work with all the people in nursing and to work with the EMS,\u201d said Miranda Van De Loo,\u201d a master\u2019s degree student in nursing who was one of the volunteers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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