A Career Rooted in Nursing
In celebration of Nursing Week, we’re spotlighting Seth Engelman, Senior Sales Lead at Limbs & Things, whose clinical background as a Critical Care Nurse shapes his perspective on simulation training.
To celebrate nursing week, we’re proud to shine a spotlight on one of our own — Seth Engelman, who brings years of nursing experience into his role of Senior Sales Lead here at Limbs & Things.
Seth pursued a career as a Clinical Care Nurse after being introduced to the nursing field by his grandmother and aunties. From hearing stories at the dinner table about the patients that pulled through, Seth sought a career that was challenging and would allow him to be of service to others.
What inspired you to become a nurse?
While medicine emphasizes the diagnosis and treatment of a patient through therapies and medication, nurses are more involved in direct patient care as well as administering treatments.
Providing simple comforts like offering a warm blanket in the middle of the night, holding an elderly wife’s hand as her partner passes away or playing video games with the teenager with sickle cell that hasn’t seen their friends in weeks are just as important to a person’s healing process as ensuring the right medicine is ordered.
The nature of nursing is to always be concerned with affording as much humanity and grace as can be found within the chemically sanitized walls of a hospital. To be a nurse is to be a comfort to others, to patients and their families.
What did you enjoy most about working as a nurse?
As a Critical Care Nurse for most of my bedside career, I’ve personally had the opportunity to work with some amazing Physicians, Pharmacists, Respiratory Technicians, and Nursing Assistants. Interdisciplinary teamwork is truly what makes miracles happen. There’s nothing like experiencing a room full of well-trained minds, all thinking critically to solve a high acuity situation, and it takes everyone being involved and handling their jobs, without needing to figure it out in the moment, to save lives.
What place do you think simulation training has in the nursing profession?
The best of the best has trained, drilled, and practiced their roles in hundreds of hours of simulation and debriefing. We’re living in a time where we know more about the human body, so there is more pressure on nurses and other clinicians alike to learn, retain, and utilize a greater amount of information.
Likewise, standards of practice are updated and improved constantly. To maintain competence and perform confidently, top level clinicians must employ simulation to facilitate updated, evidence-based training and hone their response to high acuity situations. This is the future of ensuring the quality of healthcare. Sure, variation must be learned through experience at bedside—there’s no denying that everybody presents differently no matter the diagnosis.
However, mastery of core skills and muscle memory are gained through repeatable, accurate simulation.
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