When University of Colorado College of Nursing student Rebecca Feldman was delivering hydromorphone through an intravenous drip to an injured patient, the new medical device she was using started flashing “Occluded! Occluded!” For a moment, she didn’t know what to do. Fortunately, it was just a test. Feldman was taking part in an exercise with other nursing and bioengineering students at the University of Colorado to test medical devices and improve healthcare.
For the past few decades, the sheriff’s office has relied on different law enforcement agencies to train its recruits. But that all changed on June 9, when Sheriff Tyler Brown won final approval from P.O.S.T., Colorado's Peace Officers Standards and Training, to operate his own academy. The ACSO will now recruit, hire and train its own deputies with higher standards and expectations that match some of the best agencies in the nation. Sheriff Tyler Brown says the idea for a new academy was part of a strategy to raise the level of training and prepare the recruits for a successful career.