ROLE CALL
Volume 1, Issue 2
Grand Valley State University Standardized Patient Program
Office of the Vice Provost for Health
January 2015
THE LIFE YOU SAVE MAY BE YOUR OWN...
Please contact
Cindy Bartman
[email protected]
or
Mary Spalding
[email protected]
with
submissions
or ideas for
future issues.
Inside this issue:
Poet’s Corner
2
Pot Luck Photo’s
2
Annual Potluck
3
Recipe
3
From the
Coordinator
4
In 2012, as I entered into my retirement after
a forty-five (45) year career
in the medical field, many
thoughts clouded my mind.
One of my biggest concerns
was how I would occupy my
extra free time. In the many
years I had worked as a nurse,
what to do with my time was
never a question; especially
the last twenty-three (23)
years prior to retiring, when I
had been the Office Manager
of Forest Hills Pediatrics.
While working at Forest
Hills I became familiar with
the Standardized Patient Program at Grand Valley State
University; and a few months
into my retirement I remembered this program.
I immediately thought that
this was my opportunity to
not only keep me from getting bored, but also to help
out the new generation of
Health Care Professionals.
At Forest Hills, we were
always a teaching practice.
We had several students who
were studying to be Doctors,
PA's, or Nurses. Many of
these students experienced
high anxieties about meeting
actual patients for the first
time. With this in mind, I
thought the Standardized
Patient Program would be the
perfect opportunity for me to
help more aspiring Health
Care Workers further their
development.
I applied, was accepted
into the program, and began
serving as a Standardized
Patient; all the time not
knowing what lied on the
road ahead. As it turns out
this venture led to something
which has potentially saved
my life.
I feel I owe a heartfelt
THANK YOU to one particular nursing student, who
during her first physical exam, ever, on a real patient,
mentioned to me that I had a
mole on my back, and that I
should watch it for any
changes in color or shape. At
that time I thought, okay I
will keep a check on it and
make an appointment with a
dermatologist. Now, five
months later, as you have
probably surmised, I am being treated for a stage one
Melanoma.
I wish I knew exactly who
this young student was, so I
could thank her personally.
But through this newsletter I
would like to let her know
that I will be forever grateful
for her recognition of the
potential danger I was facing.
As the old saying goes:
"You never know where the
road may lead." But I am
glad that my road into retirement led me to the GVSU
Standardized Patient Program.
Gratefully,
Mary C.
Van
Heck
SP POETS and They Know it!!
THE GENIUS OF STANDARD PATIENTS
But I can't do big-chested man
Today I opened an email
Or 30-year-old-ish female
That carried Hepatitis B,
Lung cancer, a heart attack
Grand Valley's SP Program
And something that hurts when you pee
is growing and ingenious,
Thanks to Cindy, Mary and their
No need to update the CDC
Sick-cessful Sign-up Genius
Or my computer antivirus,
'Cause it's just the Standard Patient
-- Mike McCarty
online Sign-up Genius
The Genius lets me choose
when and how sick I want to be,
Playing roles to help therapists-,
nurses-, social workers-to-be
I can be a grieving spouse
Who has lost the will to be,
Or a patient who's a louse
With a wife and an STD
Standard Patients are versatile
And can portray strong or frail
POTLUCK PHOTO’S
One thing our SP’s need
no practice at...dessert!!
Jean Nagelkerk, Vice Provost for
Health, welcomed everyone to
the event.
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Andy Booth, PAS Program Director, addresses the crowd.
ROLE CALL
FIRST ANNUAL SP POTLUCK
The first annual SP
Potluck was held on December
12, 2014 at the Cook-DeVos
Center for Health Sciences.
The focus of the event was
food, friendship, and recognition of a job well done!
Director, who also shared his
experiences with the SP Program and the value it adds to
the education of our Physician
Assistant students.
It is our hope this becomes an annual event. We are also looking at an outdoor
ice cream social event this spring that our
youngest, child SP’s can enjoy! Thanks to all
who made this first effort a high calorie success!!
All SP’s in attendance
were given GVSU label pins as
Jean Nagelkerk, GVSU a token of our appreciation.
And then it was time to eat!
Vice Provost for Health,
And eat we did off tables brimopened the event with comments and gratitude for all the ming with everything from
work our SP’s do with and for soups to cake!! Our next project may well be an SP cookour students. She introduced
book because this crew can
Andy Booth, PAS Program
cook!
SP’S RECIPE FOR SUCCESS
How about this for winter?
Super bowl parties, casual
family gatherings, or Saturday dinner.
crock pot for 3-4 hours on
low heat)
meat and sauce into crock
pot on low for 2-3 hours or
until ready to serve)
Meat should be very tender.
4 lb. beef chuck roast
On cutting board or platter,
break meat apart with forks
or meat shredder
tool. Dispose of fat, etc.
1 large onion, chopped
Reserve any juices if you like.
2 T. Crisco
Meat should be in small
chunks or bite size pieces.
Return meat to baking dish
or crock pot.
Makes approximately 12
sandwiches.
Beef Barbecue
3 T. apple cider vinegar
1 cup catsup
3 T. Worcestershire sauce
2 T. brown sugar
1 tsp. mustard (regular sandwich mustard will work)
2 tsp. chili powder
1 tsp. salt
1/2 cup finely chopped celery
if desired
Cook beef roast in oven at
325 degrees for 2-3 hours. (or
Volume 1, Issue 2
To make sauce: Mix onion,
Crisco, vinegar, catsup,
Worcestershire sauce, brown
sugar, mustard, chili powder,
salt and celery in large glass
measuring cup or small
bowl. Heat in microwave for
1-2 minutes to heat through
and melt sugar.
Serve on buns. Onion buns
suggested.
Freezes well.
* Extra sauce can be made to
serve on the side, or if you
think the meat is too
dry. Just mix up more of the
sauce ingredients and microwave for several minutes.
Submitted by :
Tari Holtslander
Pour sauce mixture into
meat and cook slowly on low
heat for 2 more hours. (or put
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Grand Valley State University
Standard Patient Program
301 Michigan St. NE –331 CHS
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Phone: 616-331-5984
E-mail: [email protected]
www.gvsu.edu/
simcenter/
One of our younger SP’s left us a note
when he came into work. Ahhh Jake...we
love you too!!!
Perfect
practice
Makes practice
perfect
From The Coordinator
I hope you enjoy this second issue of our newsletter, Role Call. I asked for submissions from our SP’s to really make this your newsletter and here I am already eeking out a
little space on the back page! Thanks so much to those of you who stepped forward and
submitted material to share with all of us. It is my goal to publish an issue each semester
so now is the time to get your articles in for summer. You are welcome to submit anything
you think will be of interest to your coworkers.
Winter semester is off to a busy start! We updated our video system over the break
and now have 6 new camera’s in our nursing labs. This will give us the opportunity to record events that we have not been able to in the past. We also have been assigned room 336
as an SP reception area. Mary Spalding will be moving her office into this area in just a few
weeks. We also hope to have a student worker helping us who will work in this area as
well. SP’s waiting to work a radiology or Speech and Language event will then report to
room 336 instead of room 331. We will also be able to hold small training sessions and orientations in this new area.
Our undergraduate social work faculty is conducting a research project based on
the work we are doing with their students this semester. The use of SP’s in social work education is very new and this project will spotlight the innovative work we are doing at
GVSU. Very exciting!!
Happy New Year from Mary and I! Let’s make it our best year yet!!
Cindy