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Show Disaster drill declared "successful " character, ranoff "hysterically," to acquaint Jean Myers, nurse at the Student Health Center, located conveniently con-veniently one floor below, with what had happened. Mrs. Myers phoned the authorities. More of this tense, nerve-wracking, nerve-wracking, spine tingling, stomach churning good stuff... While waiting for the ambulance am-bulance to arrive, there was more "hamming" than hurting. Many began crying, not from their wounds, but from laughter. The room, complete with overturned couches and strewn paper, still looked like organized disorganization. Campus police and main- m iimmiTrr-T"MMMM tenance men were the first to arrive, about six and one-half minutes after the "holocaust," which is used for training. Not just the training of student nurses and makeup artists, but of paramedics, ambulance personnel per-sonnel and hospital employees. Mrs. Myers was busily taking the pulses and making preliminary evaluations when the ambulance arrived, 10 and one half minutes after the bomb went off. At 11 minutes following the disaster, law officers arrived, and began tickling the feet of the "injured" in order to evaluate the extent of their wounds. With Kent Hoyt, SUSC n t f T: , - "Cvp i --. "4 Ai ! "-.! Mill " V ! Mrs. Smith said all department managers responded very well, some even coming from out of town to participate in the training session. The D.D.C. events are required, she said, by the Joint Committee on Hospital Accreditation on a twice-yearly schedule. "The external disasters are to help upgrade our personnel as well as make the community aware of drills and procedures we have," she explained. Mrs. Smith said the disaster-code disaster-code blue-was announced over the hospital intercom at 1:40 when they first received the call. The complete hospital drill lasted one hour and 45 minutes, including a period for evaluation. "Our communications between the disaster site and the hospital were improved this time," Mrs. Smith said. "There was no traffic jamming and our auxiliary response was also very good. We also found our supplies were adequate. "Sometimes the drills are a bit chaotic, but they are good to have." Student nurses acting as injured in-jured in the excercise were: La Rae McClellan, Lynne Cardon, Bonnie Darrington, Heha Gray, Dan Mortensen, Sharon Parkinson, Chris Kunz, Marlene Ackroyd, Greg Mackelprang, Nancy Gale. Janet Kesler Kris Thomas, Linda Green, Donna Heath, Beth Perks, Janet Kesler, Kris Thomas, Linda Green, Donna Heath, Beth Perks, Kendra Holt, Phyllis Schnoor, Debbie Meldrum and Lynda Smith. Hy Jay Wanisley Actually, it was one of the nicest disasters I've been to. Thanks to a little advance warning, some people knew about the annual Cedar City Disaster Drill Condition before others did. Some of the ones who did know and planned for the "disaster" were 22 nurses in the SUSC Cooperative Nursing program and three members of the SUSC Theater Arts-Stage Makeup class. Joseph Gilg, instructor of stage makeup, arrived about two hours before a bomb was scheduled to go off and began preparing the wounded. Wounded they were, or at least appeared to be. Some had burns, others were unconscious un-conscious with head injuries, some with compound fractures and others in shock. Some of the injuries were enough to put you in shock. Other injuries were stated as: Neurological problem-conscious with head injury and hemiplegia; chest wound; scalp wound, small lacerations; minor shock; hysterical; and dead (no makeup required). Members of Joseph Gilg's class were Grant Gotshell, Johlynn Dunn and Mary Winn. At 1:30 p.m., in Manzanita Hall, the pretend bomb went off. Lynda Smith, true to her ' . ,,. is - I l J V: S? -rjf" . ! : f . I I L L Last Week's D.D.C. (Disaster Drill Condition) received the help of Joseph Gilg and students from his Stage Makeup class. Above, Gilg touches up a compound com-pound fracture, as the wounded j makes a joke about its ap pearance. Center, Larae Me Clellan receives a few burns t her face, thanks to the hands am makeup of Johlynn Dunn. Below the "wounded" are tarried out o Manzanita Hall, site of tin disaster training. maintenance man, taking full charge of the evacuation procedure, the fire department arrived (15 minutes) with needed stretchers and personnel. Those that were running about hysterically were finally calmed down and helped with the evacuation procedures. Soon, at 2:05 all were out and on their way to the Valley View Medical Center. Mary Smith, administrative ad-ministrative assistant at VVMC, said she "felt good" about this exercise. i mm .mil unp in r m T" ' ' , 'fc.1 I K nj L 1 ;m i) 1 1 tLSS t'f ;) . VAX", |