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under the OAKS Campus Triples Bandwidth Capacity 2 The growing popularity of video streaming was draining bandwidth capacity on the St. Ambrose campus. But students taking a break from their studies now can Skype, play X-Box, utilize YouTube or watch Netflix to beat the band. In time for the start of spring semester, the university’s information resources technology office completed a project that tripled the available bandwidth across campus. Sean McGinn ’06, assistant IT director, said St. Ambrose started the year with 100 megabits per second (Mbps) of bandwidth capacity, a total that was “maxed” daily when school was in session. Hardware upgrades have increased that total to 300 Mbps, with 200 directed to residence halls alone. The remaining 100 Mbps should sufficiently serve classrooms and administrative offices for at least another 18 months, McGinn said. But new advances in video technology, specifically the anticipated growth of high-definition downloads, eventually will require further upgrades, he said. —Craig DeVrieze More Than the Name is New The newly named St. Ambrose College of Health and Human Services (CHHS) is poised to advance important changes occurring in education and the health and human service fields. Changes began in July of 2010 when the School of Social Work became part of the former College of Education and Health Sciences. The newly named CHHS also houses the teacher education program and graduate programs in education, and oversees the Children’s Campus. Those programs are being combined within a newly created School of Education within CHHS. The new name “better reflects the diversity and scope” of programs offered by the steadily growing CHHS, said Sandra Cassady, PhD, dean of the college. “The School of Education will provide future and current teachers a range of opportunities with our undergraduate and graduate program offerings.” New programming in the health fields also is being considered. —Craig DeVrieze Learn more about the College of Health and Human Services at sau.edu/scene When Steve Finn ’02 MBA, was digging up potatoes and plucking tomatoes from their vines last summer, he conjured memories of time spent on his Uncle Buddy’s farm in Pennsylvania during his teens. Manager of Sodexo Dining Services at St. Ambrose, Finn’s boyhood memories were sparked while he worked a small plot of land at the St. Vincent’s Center, along with members of GreenLife, the environmental club at SAU. The garden project is part of a contract Sodexo has had since the mid-1990s with Des Moinesbased Loffredo Fresh Produce Co., to provide the St. Ambrose community with locally-grown food. The produce distributor, with a building in Moline, has contracts with Midwest-only farmers. “There’s a big difference between getting your produce out of California or locally,” Finn said. Summers, Finn also gets vegetables from the GreenLife plot. Last year, GreenLife harvested 162 pounds of tomatoes, 30 pounds of zucchini and 28 pounds of carrots. Sodexo also is helping the farmers. “It’s not hit or miss like at a farmer’s market,” Finn explained. “Every week, the farmer knows he will be selling 10 bushels of a product.” Finn actually has a bigger dream. “My vision,” he said, “is that we have a farmer that can pull up to the dock here, and I’ll say, ‘We’ll take it all.” —Robin Youngblood BUYING LOCAL a ‘growing’ trend for Sodexo
under the OAKS They’re No Dummies High-tech ‘sims’ teach health science lessons Cherry Pepper is having a bad morning. The simulators can mimic a heart murmur. They can display Overnight, she was tolerating fluids, walking short distances and the telltale sounds of pneumonia in a lung. They can also react to her appetite was returning a bit in the wake of an emergency appendectomy two days earlier. Physical Therapy Program Director Michael Puthoff, PhD, said repositioning in bed, a skill PT students must consistently practice. Now, she says she is dizzy and feeling nauseous, but what really is PT students are clamoring for more such hands on experiences and troubling her are the spiders on the ceiling of her hospital room. Kaney said plans are being made to expand use of the simulators Something is decidedly wrong here, and it will be up to junior across the nursing curriculum. St. Ambrose nursing students Brittani Felderman, Danika Sawyer and Nursing student Sawyer, who recently began working as a clinical Thomas Koehler to read the signs and find the problem. assistant in the emergency rooms at both Genesis Medical Center The dizziness, nausea and, particularly, the creepy crawlers that Davenport campuses, said the realness of talking to the simulators only a hallucinating Cherry Pepper can see are strong clues. The has helped her develop a better bedside manner. insulin IV drip attached to her left arm completes the tale. “Some people are kind of edgy when they don’t feel well,” she The trio decides a blood sugar test is in order, discovers Mrs. said. “So it really helps you develop your people skills, too.” Pepper is hypoglycemic and, while Sawyer turns off the insulin drip, —Craig DeVrieze Koehler phones the patient’s doctor for a prescription. Watch a video of the “sims” lab at sau.edu/scene Crisis averted. But here’s the real news: Although Cherry Pepper isn’t a human being, she is much more authentic than those aforementioned spiders. Nursing, physical therapy and occupational therapy students in SAU’s College of Health and Human Services are learning practical lessons this year using six high fidelity simulators that are part mannequin and part computer. “These ‘sims’ can do anything,” Felderman said. “You can make them do anything. You can make them say anything.” “They can drop their blood pressure,” Koehler concurred. “They can make them die, essentially. You have to be prepared for any situation you could encounter in real life with these mannequins, which is really what’s invaluable about them.” In this setting, the “they” is Mary Lou Kaney, an assistant professor and lab director in the nursing department. This simulation exercise is one of countless practical nursing drills 300-level nursing students will experience this year with the help of these high-tech simulators. The six “sims” were purchased with grant money from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, the Riverboat Development Authority and the Scott County Regional Authority. With teaching staff cueing a computer, the high-tech mannequins can talk, mimic different medical issues, change breathing patterns, heart rates and blood pressures and respond to medications. They can be catheterized, ventilated, intubated and made up to display a variety of wounds. One bleeds. Another gives birth. 3
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