From left, Samantha Ramey, Tonnica Sasanas, Myriame Samson, Amanda Curry, and Johnna McCurry transport a patient to a waiting ambulance. Patients were taken to Habersham County Medical Center, where the drill continued.
Disaster Drill grows each year, as does School of Nursing and Health Sciences.
DRILL
Each year the Piedmont College Daniel School of Nursing and Health Sciences works with local emergency services agencies to stage a mock disaster to help train senior student nurses from the Demorest and Athens campuses. The students never know when or what type of emergency they will have to face. The junior student nurses played the role of victims in this year’s drill, which simulated an accidental lab explosion, and the PC Theatre Department ensured that injuries were as realistic as possible. Dr. Linda Scott, Dean of the Daniel School of Nursing and Health Sciences, said thanks go to Habersham Medical Center and all of the local agencies for making this year’s drill an educational success.
summer 2013
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