NEW SIMULATOR AT ACM - College and community representatives toured the ACM Bedford County Campus Nursing Program recently to witness a demonstration of a new Gaumard Clinical Nurse Patient Simulator, purchased with the generous financial assistance of the Ann H. Shaffer family and a grant from the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies. Those present for the demo included (L-R) Community Foundation for the Alleghenies Bedford County Director Dina McGee; Professor of Nursing Sherry Obert; Dan Shaffer, son of Ann H. Shaffer; Associate Professor of Nursing Melinda Romesberg; Associate Professor of Nursing Devon Corle; Professor/Director of On-Campus Nursing Programs Sandy Clark; Associate Dean/Nursing Program Administrator Rick Cooper; Dan Shaffer, spouse of Ann H. Shaffer; John Shaffer, son of Ann H. Shaffer; Director of PA Advancement and Community Relations Leah Pepple; Chair of the Bedford County Regional Education Foundation Dan Koontz and Foundation/Community Relations Assistant Liisa Kreydatus.
ACM BEDFORD COUNTY CAMPUS NURSING PROGRAM RECEIVES
STATE-OF-THE-ART PATIENT SIMULATOR
EVERETT, Pa. (June 6, 2023) – Allegany College of Maryland’s Bedford County Campus Nursing Program recently received the gift of a state-of-the-art Gaumard Clinical Nurse Patient Simulator.
This high-tech simulator provides ACM nursing students with the most-advanced technology in a wide array of disciplines and includes features such as conversational speech, life-like motor movement and simulated physiology that “blurs the line between simulation and real life.”
The purchase of the patient simulator was made possible through the Bedford County Regional Education Foundation with financial assistance from the family of Ann H. Shaffer, who owned and operated Berneice’s Gift Shop in Everett for 26 years before her passing in 2017, and a grant from the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies. The Shaffer family donated items from Berneice's to the Bedford County Regional Education Foundation. Proceeds were then split between the Ann H. Shaffer Memorial Scholarship Fund established through the Bedford County Regional Education Foundation and the purchase of the new nursing simulator.
Donors and partners recently visited the Bedford County Campus to meet with ACM administrators, faculty and foundation members and witness the simulator in action.
“These simulators are so important to nursing education, anything that can be done on a live patient can be performed on these mannequins,” said Rick Cooper, Associate Dean and ACM Nursing Program Administrator. “The simulations are realistic of what the students will see in the hospital setting with actual live patients. The mannequins do not replace the care the students give to live patients but enhances their learning while on campus.”
For more information on the ACM Nursing Program, visit www.allegany.edu/nursing. Information about the Bedford County Regional Education Foundation is available by contacting Leah Pepple at 814-652-9528 ext. 6223 or emailing lpepple@allegany.edu.
