Editor:
I read with interest your article of Dec. 2, "High-tech Medi-Man Helps Teach Nursing Students." The assertion that Azure College's patient simulator is "the first of its kind in the Heartland," puzzled me because South Florida State College Nursing Program has been using one for several years.
MetiMan and SFSC's SimMan are both classified "HPS," models, which means they are patient simulators capable of portraying human characteristics through computer-integration. Because these "three-dimensional," products possess class-requisite features, there can be no appreciable difference in the function between models.
Therefore, the arrival of SimMan in 2008 was the "first of its kind in the Heartland." Since then, SFSC Nurse educators have put this cutting-edge technology to good use, creating original scenarios now in use at other colleges and earning a reputation for simulation excellence.
Angela Chaffin-Miller
Sebring
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - www.newssun.com/ltr-121212-chaffin-miller