Clovis Unified Patient Care Pathway students refine skills with new ambulance simulator

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- A caller portion of instrumentality successful the Clovis Unified School District is helping hole Career Technical Education students for the existent world.

An ambulance simulator is investigating whether they tin execute the skills they're learning portion connected the road.

Students successful the Clovis North and Clovis East Patient Care Pathway are learning important skills.

Clovis East Instructor Dr. Kelly Eichmann says that includes CPR, intubation, and captious signs.

"So ever successful the CTE world, we're trying to truly springiness students a hands connected - existent hands connected experience." Eichmann said.

Now, a caller portion of instrumentality is aiming to shingle things up a spot and instrumentality student's skills to the adjacent level.

An ambulance simulator allows students to signifier loading up patients.

Once inside, the trailer is tilted up and down, near and close by unit extracurricular to simulate driving down the road.

Senior Ariana Zamora wants to go a pediatric caregiver and said it takes awhile to get utilized to the movement.

"It was a small scary, not gonna lie." Zamora said.

Four mounted cameras let administrators to show what's happening inside.

And Ariana says she knows this is preparing her for her future.

"Doing the skills is 1 thing, but having to bash the much moving, and then, like, moving wherever you don't cognize wherever you're gonna spell is 10 times much difficult, and truthful it conscionable takes signifier and time, but having the ambulance simulator is truly helpful." Zamora said.

Eichmann says programs similar this, with tools similar the ambulance simulator, assistance students marque determination astir their aboriginal careers.

"This instrumentality truly gives us, gives a student, an accidental to genuinely get a consciousness for 'Can I truly bash this? Is this truly for me?'" Eichmann said.

Eichmann says on with being enrolled successful 2 assemblage courses, students are capable to physique their assurance an skills truthful they're prepared for assemblage and vocation aft precocious school.

"We privation our students to beryllium conscionable a small up of the pack. And truthful without this benignant of equipment, without the concern from the community, from the schoolhouse we can't bash that." Eichmann said.

By the clip students postgraduate precocious schoolhouse they volition beryllium concussion certification, basal beingness enactment certification and they volition person halt the bleed training.

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