Penn State Mont Alto nursing students work along side emergency response providers to care for i-Stan — a high-fidelity human simulaton patient — and prepare him for transport to Penn State Hershey Medical Center.
Epilepsy is a disease characterized by recurrent seizures, which occur when the electrical activity of the brain becomes abnormal, resulting in a variety of different symptoms (seizure types). Depending on the location of the epileptic region in the brain and its cause, there are different types of epilepsy. Individuals with epilepsy may not be able to do many of the things most Americans take for granted, such as driving, swimming and cooking. They may live in constant fear of the next seizure because they do not know when it will start or what they will be doing when it does. Epilepsy is highly treatable, and the goal is to completely control or significantly reduce the frequency of seizures and minimize medical side effects.
Technological advances in medicine have helped increase someone's chance of surviving cancer, recovering from a traumatic injury, or beating the odds of a disease that was once considered untreatable. But there are no advances that can substitute for the need of blood. The three major components of blood--red cells, platelets, and plasma--play a huge role in many patients' treatments and procedures. Across the nation, 5 million people in the United States receive life-saving blood transfusions on an annual basis, and only 5 percent of the eligible population donates.
Penn State Mont Alto nursing and information sciences and technology students collaborated on a capstone project to help improve the quality of services at Waynesboro Community and Human Services.
On Dec. 5, Penn State Mont Alto forestry students climbed a 135-foot yellow poplar on the Penn State Mont Alto campus in a 20-year annual exercise of forest technology instructor Craig Houghton’s arboriculture class.
On Feb. 25, Penn State Mont Alto will offer the American Mathematics Competition on campus. The Mont Alto campus is the only public site for the AMC in the area and one of only five in Pennsylvania, including Penn State New Kensington. The AMC is a national mathematics contest aimed at talented secondary students with the goal of “strengthening the mathematical capabilities of our nation’s youth.”
