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| The UL Lafayette College of Nursing and Allied Health Professions Alumni Committee would like to welcome you to our homepage. Our committee is charged with devising ways and means of maintaining alumni interest through providing information, collecting and disseminating news from our campus and increasing contact between the alumni and the main campus. The committee also works closely with the UL Lafayette Alumni Association to insure adequate coverage of our college in their activities. | ||||||
Alumni Chairperson Greeting |
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| The fall semester has begun and there are many activities happening within our College and on the UL Lafayette campus. In this update, you will find information on our Alumni Homecoming event, a Homecoming activity schedule for the UL-Lafayette campus, an update on our Simulation Labs, our Facebook group and some facts about the university and our own college. We are trying to keep you up-to-date with what is new with our college, our faculty and our students. The third annual College of Nursing Alumni Reception is being held on Thursday, October 22nd, from 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm at the Alumni House on campus. Again, there is an information flyer on this website that gives you the details and cost for the reception but you will not be able to “reply” via this website. You will have to submit your registration and fees to the address that is given on the form if you plan to attend the event. Invitations will also be mailed out through the UL Lafayette Alumni Association to nursing alumni in the surrounding area. Please share this information with other alumni in your community or work area, especially those of you who are a “9” graduate!! We would love to hear about the success stories of our USL / UL Lafayette nursing alumni to post on our webpage; please consider submitting information to share with other nursing alumni. Hope to see you on October 22nd! Faye Broussard Blankenship ‘70 Chair, UL Lafayette College of Nursing Alumni Committee |
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Simulation Lab Update
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| The UL Lafayette College of Nursing and Allied Health Professions considers itself one of the leading universities in our state in utilizing the simulation experience for our nursing students. It is the only university in Louisiana that has a simulated neonatal, pediatric and labor-delivery unit. The senior nursing students use sophisticated computerized simulators that mimic real-world hospital situations. This requires continual improvements in our equipment and continual development of our faculty in utilizing these simulation labs for student experiences. Our Adult Critical Care Simulation Lab and our Maternal-Child Simulation Lab have both received upgrades and updates over the summer as well as new equipment and capabilities for the fall semester.
Both of our Simulation Labs will soon have the capability of recording student participation in actual simulations with an audio/video feed to an area outside of the simulation lab where other students can view the live simulation as it develops. The MeTiVision system allows students who are not participating in the live simulation to observe their peers responding to the scenario directed by the faculty member. A “debriefing” room has been constructed where students and faculty will be able to discuss the scenario and the interventions performed by the students involved. It offers excellent teaching opportunities for students involved in the scenario as well as those observing the live simulations. Students will have the ability to critically evaluate themselves in “life-like” clinical settings. The Adult Critical Care Simulation Lab is also piloting the use of the Elsevier Simulation Learning System with Medical Records. It will allow students and faculty to utilize a documentation system for the simulation experiences. Another addition has been made to our Adult Simulation Lab for this semester. Starting this semester, a simulation experience is available for our psych/mental health students. The program is called “Hearing Voices that are Distressing: A training and Simulation Experience” by Dr. Patricia Deegan. The students listen to an audio track that simulates distressing voices. The students are given cognitive and hands-on tasks to do while listening to the audio portion (“voices”) in an effort to show them how difficult it is to concentrate on tasks/activities when “hearing voices”. The goals of this simulation curriculum are to help students understand the day-to-day challenges that people with psych/mental illness face, to help students become more empathetic to those patients and to aid students in developing coping strategies to better address the needs of these patients. |
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Show Your UL Lafayette PRIDE!!! |
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| I would encourage all nursing alumni to investigate the purchase of a UL-Lafayette license plate for your car. You can get information on the UL Lafayette Alumni website at www.louisianaalumni.org under Programs and Services or click the link below for more details. | ||||||
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Document last revised Tuesday, September 22, 2009 7:38 AM
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College of Nursing and Allied Health Professions
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