Health Science students learn at ECCC

    Pelahatchie High School's Health Science teacher Elizabeth Luker and the Health Science Core II and Health Science Clinical I & II classes visited East Central Community College’s (ECCC) nursing school lab, simulation lab and surgical suite. 

    While there, the Medical Science Academy students practiced starting an IV and saw computer programmable simulator (Sim) “patients.” These simulated patients can talk, breathe, have a heartbeat and are programmed to have certain ailments. 

    The most advanced Sim patient is the newborn baby. The Sim baby can be programmed to have respiratory distress and turn blue. The students also toured the surgical suite, where they practiced “laparoscopic” surgery and learned some details about what happens in an operating room (OR).