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Teaching My Community How to Save Lives through CPR.

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 Knowledgeable Prepared. How did we do it?.

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Teaching My Community How to Save Lives through CPR.

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  1. Teaching My Community How to Save Lives through CPR. Haylee Pierce

  2. Why CPR Courses? • Medical training • Potentially saving lives • Not alone • Community service opportunities

  3. My Mentor • Mrs. Mary Hill • Kind • Supportive • Helpful • Knowledgeable • Prepared

  4. How did we do it?

  5. 1) CPR Certification • The Future • Preparedness • Confidence • Relating to Students • Nervous • Lengthy • Difficult

  6. 2) CPR Instructor • Experience: • Confidence • Preparation • Bonding

  7. Funding 3) Equipment OUT WITH THE OLD IN WITH THE NEW

  8. 4) Equipment Cont. • Knowledge • Equipment malfunction • Understanding students • Helping the students • Comfort • Feel in control

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. City of Petal Employees • What did they learn? • Infant, adult, and child CPR including mouth-to-mouth • Heimlich Maneuver • How to use an AED

  12. Petal School District Employees • What did they learn? • Infant, adult, and child CPR including mouth-to-mouth • Heimlich Maneuver • How to use an AED

  13. Petal Middle School • What did they learn? • Hands only CPR • Heimlich Maneuver • How to use an AED

  14. Petal High School • What did they learn? • Adult and child CPR including mouth-to-mouth • Heimlich Maneuver • How to use an AED

  15. 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.

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