Bertin Salguero-Porres, MD, and Janice Cagigas, RN.
The Center for Advanced Medical Simulation at Mount Sinai West (CAMS) is conducting two-hour sessions to prepare 136 RNs to take care of COVID-19 patients who are on mechanical ventilators after being transferred from intensive care. To observe social distancing in our simulation rooms, the participants are limited to five or six per session.
On Friday, April 24, Bertin Salguero-Porres, MD, who conducts the classes, stayed to do the last two-hour session of the day for the one nurse who could make it to the class. When asked why he conducted this last class for one learner, Dr. Salguero-Porres responded that Janice Cagigas, RN, had driven all the way from New Jersey on her day off to learn how to take care of these patients on mechanical ventilators, which is a new skill set for her.
I was touched with admiration and awe for both. I should mention that Dr. Salguero-Porres is the recipient of the 2020 Institute for Medical Education House Staff Excellence in Teaching Award and a 2020 IME Blue Ribbon Award of Education Research on the subject of mechanical ventilation using innovative simulation-based education.
Submitted by: Priscilla Loanzon, RN, Director, Simulation Education, Center for Advanced Medical Simulation, Mount Sinai West