Flexible Learning with CaRE
The Cardiovascular and Respiratory Examination (CaRE) Trainer is designed to support a range of learning styles. In this handy guide, we breakdown the different ways you can learn with CaRE.
What Can CaRE Offer?
Designed with an innovative system that synchronises pulses, lung & heart sounds, breathing and chest rise and fall, CaRE is unique in its lifelike ability to replicate real cardio-respiratory conditions. From building base skills through to complex clinical cases, such as Sepsis & Tension Pneumothorax, that students may otherwise not have a chance to examine in the classroom and would be difficult to practice on clinical placements, CaRE is suitable for enhancing learning at all levels of the cardiovascular and respiratory exam.
Practice on diverse patient representations
CaRE encourages recognising patient diversity by offering a representation of skin tones, typical male and female presentations, and a middle-aged build which is characteristic of cardio-respiratory patients.
Offering students the chance to practice examinations on patients with a range of skin tones reduces biases in treatment that can affect individual diagnoses. We've also included a set of breasts that can be placed onto the CaRE model to ensure students can experience realistic physiologies of both male and female patients. Practicing with breasts allows students to understand how they should be handling breast tissue, how to hear the auscultations around it and become comfortable with doing so.
For this reason, we recommend that multiple stations are set up with different characteristics, or that trainers are alternated between male and female presentations during practice.
Support multiple students’ practice at once
The flexibility of CaRE ensures that classroom learning time is maximised, with multiple students able to practice at once. CaRE can support up to two students auscultating at once, meaning that both students can observe a condition through their own stethoscopes, practicing positioning and technique.
CaRE can be auscultated using standard stethoscopes with our LimbPADs which emit lifelike lung and heart sounds depending on the location they are placed on the model, creating an immersive and realistic practice environment for students. LimbPAD sounds are also able to be projected through a speaker to aid whole class learning.
Whole class learning
With the ability to have the LimbPAD sound projected through a speaker, CaRE can teach whole classes at once. Trainers are able to show positioning of a stethoscope and project the sounds one would hear through the speaker. The class are then able to dissect and discuss the different sounds heard garnering accurate understanding and preparing students for independent learning. CaRE also features a Lesson Plan mode where the user can create playlists of conditions, ideal for structuring classroom teaching.
Multiple stations
The wide range of scenarios and skills that CaRE supports means that it is an ideal model for station learning. Whether building on key understanding of individual skills, such as recognising different pulses or lung sounds, or learning to identify more complex cases, each station highlights a new aspect of the examination and allows multiple students to build their understanding simultaneously.
Assessment Mode
Once students are confident in their abilities, they can practice for future assessments using the innovative Assessment Mode. Ahead of the lesson, educators can preset CaRE’s clinical presentation and fill out the correct observations in admin mode. Answers are then hidden from students while conducting their assessment. Once complete, the students can compare their answers to those of the trainer, identifying areas of focus for future revision.
If you want to discover more about CaRE, check out our article on the main benefits of this model. Or if you are considering purchasing a CaRE for your institution, view the webpage or book a demo with your representative.
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