So every semester for the graduating nursing students, we put on a "mock" of things that they might come upon outside of the hospital. The nurses are great in the hospital but they have everything they are doing for patients given to them by the doctor. Out on the streets they don't have that luxury, like when their neighbor calls them because they know they are a nurse and that neighbor thinks they are having an allergic reaction and would like their help. Or they just so happened to be on site of a car accident, they would know more of the emergency aspect of the medical field. I ingeniously thought of asking my former acting teacher if any of his students would be interested in coming and helping, which they did, so there were five of them there. So here are the pictures:
These are the early morning preparations.
You know, psyching up for the coming events...
Here is the make up station for all the injuries we have. Don't worry, I brought my arsonal of makeup...
And I know how to use it! I'm giving this gentleman a black eye, you know, in case you couldn't tell...
He was in a bar fight... and lost... and gets shot...
This is a burn in the process of being made.
Annamarie is so good at her job of "hurting" people.
Don't worry, it's karo syrup with coloring in it.
Station one: Kraig and his buddy Nate were playing and an unfortunate incident occurred. I'm not say Nate pushed poor Kraig off the roof but I am saying that Nate didn't not push Kraig off the roof. Anyway little Kraiglette broke his femer. Ouchies. Don't worry though, even though it's one of the most painful injuries you can sustain, Kraig made it look like it was the most pleasant experience he's ever had. No wonder he's going into paramedicine and not acting.
Oh yeah, they gave him a juice because he was being so good.
Station 2: Students are at a comedy improv show having a rollicking good time when suddenly...
Mr. Front-Row-Center starts having a wild seizure! (Played by Elliot Croft, a real comedy improv actor who so kindly volunteered to play with us)
There was a reporter from the Scroll (the school newspaper) taking pictures and her face when he went down was hi-larious. She was definitely not expecting that.
Station 3: Three buddies decide that they want their names to live on through the wonderful website of youtube, so they decide that they are going to light their friend on fire and send him skiing down the mountain.
Well, they found that that was a bad decision and this group of nurses that "just so happened by" helped the stunned boys out.
It was awesome because all the nurses could not hide their disbelief at the boys stupidity of lighting their friend (played by another improv actor Brad Cottle) on fire. In fact, one group kicked them out of the room because they couldn't stand their idiocy.
Station 5: (yeah I somehow skipped station 4 which was a UTI of a newly married girl) The traveling pack of nurses happens on a stabbed hobo in an ally (cleverly disguised as a storage closet)
The hobo (played by Levi, a paramedic student) lived I believe.
Station 6: The nurses are having an impromptu meeting in the handicapped bathroom, oh I mean in one of their living rooms when their frantic neighbor starts pounding on the door and throws his baby at them saying he left the bath tub just for a second to answer the phone.
The father (played by improv actor Aaron Allsop) then freaks out and eventually ends up on the ground while they take care of the baby (played by baby manikin #2).
This is the group getting the lowdown on station 7.
Station 7: Two guys are hanging out when one (Cody from the fire station) starts to go down. He's swelling up and acting weird like he can't breath. Friend two (played by Cody Crockette of the paramedic class) runs and gets help and just so happens upon another group of roaming nurses (super lucky right?).
Friend two thinks his friend is allergic to something and knows he has an epi pen somewhere on his person.
It took the nurses a while to find it.
One nurse not so kindly told friend number two, who was freaking out, to back off which was kind of hilarious.
And after quite some time they finally found the epi pen and delivered it to friend number 1. Cody was exstatic! This is his victory dance for his friend averting death.
They put something on Cody's face to make it look like he was sweating profusely and papertowels were sticking to it.
Station 8: This is Josh (strapping young paramedic student) who is about to age 30 years and have some chest pain. He and his wife were throwing a party when he suddenly felt like an elephant was sitting on his chest.
I think he looks pretty happy for someone in so much pain.
Oh this is better, so his "wife" goes next door and gets the nurses who are again having a meeting. He has pain all up his left arm. And as it progresses I'm pretty sure he codes. I didn't stay for the whole thing so, yeah... I didn't get any pictures of it if he did.
Station 9: A girl (Paramedic student Kailena) calls her nurse friends to come check on her roommate who has been getting more and more sick over the past few days. Roommate (improv student Macy Hammond) has shoulder pain and abdominal pain and is sweaty and weak and feverish and so on. (yeah this picture is before it started so the roommate (macy in the white shirt) is not yet in pain because the nurses haven't arrived)
Ah yes, this is more like it. She was very very good at being sick.
Turns out she was pregnant and had an ectopic pregnancy (fetus implantation somewhere other than the uterus usually in the Fallopian tube) that had ruptured her fallopian tube causing pain and massive internal bleeding. This one trips up the nurses a little bit because they go to BYU-I and don't expect a single girl going to school to be pregnant...
Station 10: A concerned neighbor calls a nurse who is again having a meeting (how convenient is that?!) about his wife. She won't answer the phone and was acting a little weird last time he talked to her and wants them to go check on her. She is a known diabetic.
This is Natalie (paramedic student) playing the neighbor wife. She had taken too much insulin and was hypoglycemic so she was acting really weird. That was the best because she was really confusing people.
I'm pretty sure at some point she told them she wasn't married and that she just liked diamonds, yeah it was pretty funny...
Station 11: Called over for an unconscious roommate (Paramedic student Annamarie). She has all kinds of needles around and has track marks up her arm. Yeah pretty obvious it's a drug overdose.
Station 12: Bar fight gone wrong. He was shot. Fix him. Because there is an unafraid group of nurses wandering all by their lonesome past a bar with men who would shoot each other.
But he's ok! for the most part. I think.
The end all be all: A bus on the way to the ski resort crashes right in front of you. Help them.
This is our friendly neighborhood Annamarie. She bloodies everyone up. Because she's so very good at it. It stems from being a zombie for Halloween for the past 12 years straight.
The pow wow afterwords where we tell the nurses everything they did wrong... and right... I guess...
ok from left to right. jessica, michael, michele, jessie, marcus... ok I don't really know who they all are. I was pretending for funsies.
This is celebratory dinner after. Yay. We beat each other up and made the nurses cry... Oh right in this picture is (for realsies) left to right is Natalie's sister, Natalie, and Emily.
Annamarie and Nick.
Elizabeth and Reed.
And that's pretty much it. If you didn't make it all the way through, that's ok. I didn't really either. That's why it took me like the entire semester and all of the descriptions towards the end were kind of crappy. Well, thank you and good night. Or good day. For those of you who prefer to watch That 70's Show. Which I do.
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