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Gavin Wright
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As far as moving and handling training is concerned, the classroom can never be as “real” as the world in which we are trying to emulate. However, anything that can help bridge the theory - practice gap is surely a welcome commodity.
Also, how do you ask the larger ones in the audience if they wouldn’t mind having a go of the hoist just so the rest of us can see how much more of a challenge fitting the sling is? Janet Scott’s idea was to create a fat suit which imitates the girth of someone who may be 30 stones (420 lbs or 191 Kg).
The Nursing Times reported that she enlisted the help of the hospital sewing room dept to help design it for her.
I don’t know about you but I feel that this will enable more to participate, bring a touch more realism into the class and turn the practical sessions from education into edutainment.
Note added 2nd July 2009:
It was pointed out to me that the correct term for this is a simulation suit. I reported the story that was presented in the Nursing Times and should have used my judgement. I apologise if any offence has been caused.
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