Teaching My Community How to Save Lives through CPR.

Haylee Pierce

Why CPR Courses?•Medical training

•Potentially saving lives•Not alone

•Community service opportunities

My Mentor•Mrs. Mary Hill

▫Kind

▫Supportive

▫Helpful

▫Knowledgeab

le

▫Prepared

How did we do it?

1) CPR Certification •The Future

▫Preparedness▫Confidence

•Relating to Students▫Nervous▫Lengthy▫Difficult

2) CPR Instructor

•Experience:

▫Confidence

▫Preparation

▫Bonding

3) Equipment

OUT WITH THE OLD

IN WITH THE NEW

Funding

4) Equipment Cont.

•Knowledge

▫Equipment

malfunction

•Understanding

students

•Helping the students

▫Comfort

▫Feel in control

5) Clean

•Comfortable▫Focuses on course, not

sanitation▫Providing positive experience

•Sometimes difficult▫Take out “lungs”▫Wipe down dummy▫Put in new “lungs”▫Pack up dummies▫Transport

6) Teach

• Keep the students:• Calm• Confident• Informed

• Why?• Preparation for real life• Make CPR Course a positive experience

• Don’t act intimidated, Act Confident• Communication

City of Petal Employees

•What did they learn?

▫Infant, adult, and child CPR including mouth-to-mouth

▫Heimlich Maneuver

▫How to use an AED

Petal School District Employees

•What did they learn?

▫Infant, adult, and child CPR including mouth-to-

mouth

▫Heimlich Maneuver

▫How to use an AED

Petal Middle School

•What did they learn?

▫Hands only CPR

▫Heimlich Maneuver

▫How to use an AED

Petal High School

•What did they learn?

▫Adult and child CPR including mouth-to-mouth

▫Heimlich Maneuver

▫How to use an AED

In the end…

•I gained confidence in my ability to

communicate.

•Life has a new perspective.

•CPR instructing is not a dreaded project

anymore; it is the line between I knew

what to do and I wish I had known what

to do.

•Hopefully this will continue.