First+Aid+Course

// Health - First Aid Course // - Home This project got off to a shaky start, because I said I would do it with a partner but then we never got around to doing anything about it. Then with a week and a half left to organise it I found another partner and got to work straight away. I decided to do first aid because I thought it was a very important skill to have in your life, being able to save somebody. This was a relatively easy project to organise because it had been done in the previous years and all we had to do was contact Sue and organise permission forms and equipment to take with us.

First Day - The first day started late due to some last minute decisions, we arrived at the health service at 9:30. I had never been there before and needed Kaine to tell us where it was, when we got there Sue had set up tables with a first aid bag for everybody ,this contained the things needed to pass the course. The information Sue told us was very interesting and I remembered it easily, she mentioned real stories and scenarios where she had to use first aid to us, this reminded me that it was very real stuff that we were doing and if we did it properly we could save a life and I think that would feel realy cool. After lunch we practiced CPR on the mannequins which was fun but still hard work, Sue insisted that we got the perfect rhythm and pressure applied to our compressions.

Second Day - The next day we were a lot more organised in the morning and everybody got down there before 9:00, this allowed us an early start to catch up on some work we missed the previous day. The second day was less talking and more practical work such as, practise CPR, how to make a sling and bandaging patients. These activities were great because I think you learn better if you actually do it. Sue gave us a revision for our test, for this she split us into pairs and gave us each a scenario, what we had to do was put what we would do in order. The big test came eventually, I was pretty confident about it although I only scraped a pass with 37/40. Finally I had earned my First Aid certificate, I was really proud and ready to go back to school. I don't think I would change anything about this project apart from leave a bit more time to organise it. All in all a great quick project with no worries!