An ‘alien invasion’ was the theme of a major incident simulation event that took place in an underground car park on Bournemouth University’s (BU) Landsdowne Campus on the 19 and 20 March 2025.
The realistic scene of a multiple casualty event was set using volunteer students from Bournemouth University’s Faculty of Health & Social Sciences (FHSS) who acted their parts as casualties with realistic-looking injuries that were created and applied by a team of makeup artist students from Arts University Bournemouth (AUB).
The event provided an opportunity for paramedic science students, nursing students, and mental health nursing students to experience what it may be like to work in a traumatic and stressful scenario but in a safe space. The range of simulated injuries that nursing students treated varying from fractured bones, crush injuries, catastrophic haemorrhage and more complex injuries that required students to work in multidisciplinary teams.
The event was also filmed by ITV and featured as a news item within ITV Meridian News.
For more information on the simulation event please visit Bournemouth University’s webpages.
25/03/2025
