(Radio Iowa) – A mobile education simulator is now in Sioux City to provide training to emergency responders in the western third of Iowa.  Iowa College of Nursing senior advisor, Jacinda Bunch, says the “Simulation in Motion” truck will be based a the Sioux City Fire Rescue Training Center. “The truck is equipped with clinical simulation equipment. So we have a simulated emergency room bay in the front of the truck that looks like an emergency room. We have all the equipment and supplies needed to take care of a patient there,” she says. “We have a computer operation station for our educators. And then the back of the truck is set up to look like the back of an ambulance. So again, all of the equipment supplies that you would expect to see in the back of an ambulance.”

“We have an adult male, we have an adult female that can give birth, we have a young child who’s probably about seven to eight years old, and then we have a newborn up to about nine months old,” she says. Bunch says the human simulators allow them to set up all kinds of training exercises. “We create medical or trauma scenarios based on the educational needs and desires of the community that we’re serving we allow the providers to come in and to care for those patients doing hands on skills hands on clinical assessments practice or critical thinking,” Bunch says.

The truck will travel across western Iowa training E-M-T’s and return to Sioux City for training there as well. The truck is part of a University of Iowa program and is one of three covering the state.