Teaching My Community How to Save Lives through CPR.
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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.