Clinicals & METI Man

Baker nursing students develop critical thinking skills and the confidence to take the initiative in providing patient care through extensive clinical hours and the practice of critical care nursing skills on a lifelike simulator, METI Man.

Employers often commend School of Nursing graduates for their holistic approach to care.

Clinicals

Known for providing hands-on clinical skills, the School of Nursing offers excellent learning opportunities at Stormont-Vail HealthCare and other health-care agencies in Topeka and area communities.

Guided closely by an experienced faculty, students receive and practice basic nursing skills before beginning clinicals in health-care agencies.

METI Man: Students Use Technology to Improve Care

Baker nursing students have a great opportunity to practice critical care nursing techniques on a life-size, lifelike mannequin called METI Man.

The human patient simulator moves its eyes, blinks, speaks, breathes and displays a heartbeat and pulse. It exhibits bodily functions that signal conditions such as heart attacks, collapsed lungs and severe strokes. METI Man is controlled by a computer program that causes him to react as real patient would under the same conditions. And when the patient simulator’s health changes, vital signs change accordingly.

The patient simulator can be programmed for multiple patient scenarios, from a young person in great health to an elderly smoker with diabetes. This allows students and staff to observe a variety of disease presentations, decide on a treatment, and see how various interventions would affect their patient. In addition, students can see how they will react in an emergency.

“This new technology provides our nursing students and staff an opportunity to respond to emergency situations before they face the same situation with a human being,” said Kathy Harr, Dean of the School of Nursing. “The goal is to improve patient safety and ultimately save more lives.”

A joint project of the SON and Stormont-Vail HealthCare, the human simulator was made possible by funding from Stormont-Vail foundation, Christ’s Hospital Corp., Stormont-Vail HealthCare and Baker University. METI Man is designed by Medical Education Technology Institute in Sarasota, Fla.