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<p>DALLAS TWP. &#8212; The SimMan in the hospital bed needed a name. &#8220;He&#8217;s Bob,&#8221; Allison Brown insisted.</p><p>&#8220;No, he&#8217;s Derek,&#8221; Mia Kotowski countered.</p><p>Why Derek?</p><p>&#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy,&#8221; Mia explained with a &#8220;why else?&#8221; look.</p><p>Ah, it should be no surprise a 13-year-old girl would pick TV&#8217;s &#8220;McDreamy&#8221; for the name of a simulation patient. The SimMan was one of four stops about 20 students made Thursday afternoon as part of Misericordia University&#8217;s week-long &#8220;Science Interprofessional Middle School Career Camp.&#8221;</p><p>While the camp introduced the students to aspects of audiology, sonography, athletic training and pharmacology &#8212; among other fields &#8212; this session was all in the nursing simulation laboratory, offering hand-on experience splitting fake pills, injecting fake medicine into fake skin, and tending to Derek as he lie motionless in a fully equipped hospital room.</p><p>Students donned latex gloves, with Allison, of Nanticoke, pondering &#8220;Why is one larger than the other?&#8221; Nursing faculty member Kathy Gelso demonstrated an intravenous line with both gravity feed and a computerized pump, let a student put an oxygen tube into Derek&#8217;s nose, and gave Mia a chance to check his blood pressure.</p><p>Although the high-tech mannequin can have a brachial pulse near the inside of the elbow, it wasn&#8217;t turned on.</p><p>&#8220;He&#8217;s dead,&#8221; Gelso confessed.</p><p>&#8220;Derek! Don&#8217;t die!&#8221; Mia implored.</p><p>Their next stop: the medicine cart, where Allison insisted the result of her pill-splitting effort was &#8220;perfect,&#8221; then bemoaned the lack of purple pills. &#8220;I love purple,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Can I paint it purple?&#8221;</p><p>Um, that&#8217;s probably a different camp.</p><p>But Mia found a new use for the three shades available for pill-splitting, putting half a red pill next to half a white one and half a blue one. &#8220;Take them and that&#8217;s how you become more American,&#8221; the Wyoming Seminary student joked.</p><p>She shuffled the order to blue, white and red. &#8220;And that&#8217;s France.&#8221;</p><p>There may have been some clowning by the crowd, but when Gelso asked what careers they were considering on this fourth day of the camp, many of the students answered with a health care option.</p><p>&#8220;Orthotics,&#8221; Allison answered with substantial certainty. &#8220;I want to make limbs.&#8221;</p><p>Maybe painted purple?</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Kathy Gelso, assistant professor of nursing, talks with Aidan Sgaggero, 13, of Kingston, Allison Brown, 11, of Nanticoke, and Emily Williams, 13, of Dallas, as they work on a simulated patient who needs treatment at Misericordia&#8217;s Passan Hall in Dallas on Thursday. Middle school students have been sampling career options all week during a career camp. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/web1_TTL072817sim1.jpg</photo0><caption0>Kathy Gelso, assistant professor of nursing, talks with Aidan Sgaggero, 13, of Kingston, Allison Brown, 11, of Nanticoke, and Emily Williams, 13, of Dallas, as they work on a simulated patient who needs treatment at Misericordia&#8217;s Passan Hall in Dallas on Thursday. Middle school students have been sampling career options all week during a career camp. </caption0><photoCredit0>Sean McKeag | Times Leader </photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/web1_TTL072817sim2.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Zach Moody, senior nursing student at Misericordia University, teaches students how to handle medicine for patients at the university&#8217;s Passan Hall in Dallas on Thursday. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/web1_TTL072817sim2.jpg</photo1><caption1>Zach Moody, senior nursing student at Misericordia University, teaches students how to handle medicine for patients at the university&#8217;s Passan Hall in Dallas on Thursday. </caption1><photoCredit1>Sean McKeag | Times Leader </photoCredit1></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/web1_TTL072817sim1CMYK.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Kathy Gelso, assistant professor of nursing, talks with Aidan Sgaggero, 13, of Kingston, Allison Brown, 11, of Nanticoke, and Emily Williams, 13, of Dallas, as they work on a simulated patient who needs treatment at Misericordia&#8217;s Passan Hall in Dallas on Thursday. Middle school students have been sampling career options all week during a career camp. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo2>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/web1_TTL072817sim1CMYK.jpg</photo2><caption2>Kathy Gelso, assistant professor of nursing, talks with Aidan Sgaggero, 13, of Kingston, Allison Brown, 11, of Nanticoke, and Emily Williams, 13, of Dallas, as they work on a simulated patient who needs treatment at Misericordia&#8217;s Passan Hall in Dallas on Thursday. Middle school students have been sampling career options all week during a career camp. </caption2><photoCredit2>Sean McKeag | Times Leader </photoCredit2></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/web1_TTL072817sim2CMYK.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Zach Moody, senior nursing student at Misericordia University, teaches students how to handle medicine for patients at the university&#8217;s Passan Hall in Dallas on Thursday. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo3>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/web1_TTL072817sim2CMYK.jpg</photo3><caption3>Zach Moody, senior nursing student at Misericordia University, teaches students how to handle medicine for patients at the university&#8217;s Passan Hall in Dallas on Thursday. </caption3><photoCredit3>Sean McKeag | Times Leader </photoCredit3></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Mark Guydish</p><p>mguydish@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Mark Guydish at 570-991-6112 or on Twitter @TLMarkGuydish</p></shirttailMeta></div>

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