St Johns

On the 30th of May 2016, a lady called Paula had a visit to my school. She is a Community  Education Officer from St. John's. She came to teach us a couple of things to do if you got hurt when you are out and about.
She taught us what D.R.S.A.B.C. means. I found out what it meant. The D stands for danger, so if  you find someone that got hurt, look for danger before you help them. The R stands for response, so if there's no danger, go up to them and tap them on their collar bone and say, "Hello, can you hear me?" If they do not respond do it again but only do it twice. The S stands for send for help, so once you  have tapped them and they don't respond call for help. Ask someone if they have a phone and say, "Get an ambulance for me, please," and tell them why you need one . The  A stands for airway, so if you are waiting for the ambulance, lift their head up so they can breathe. If the head is down they won't be able to breath because the airway is blocked. The B stands for breathing, so once you have lifted their head up, put your ear over the mouth and place two fingers on the belly, listen if they are breathing and look on the belly to see if it's moving. And last but not least C: the C stands for CPR so if they are not breathing place two hands in the middle of the top part of their body and lock your elbows in and push down a 3rd of the body. Once you have done  30 pushes then you can put your mouth over theirs and breathe into their mouth and keep doing that until the person has woken or if the ambulance people are there. If they say they will take over and that's what D.R.S.A.B.C. means.
Next we got showed by Paula how to do CPR but we didn't do it because there was not enough dummies and it would take 2 hours to get taught how to do it. After that we got taught how to stop severe bleeding. To stop bleeding, get a clean towel and place it on the cut. Then get a bandage from your first aid kit and wrap it around the towel. Wrap it up twice and make sure you can only fit two fingers in, no more than two our else the bleeding won't stop because it needs pressure to stop. Then hold your sore arm on your shoulder for a couple of minutes. Unwrap the bandge and wash it. Then put a plaster on the cut to stop germs from going in or it can get infected.
Next we were taught how to help your burns. What you do is run your burn under cold water for 20 minutes and if it does not stop keep going. Then place glad wrap on top to stop it stinging.
Last, of course, we were taught how to put someone into the recovery position. It stops them from choking if they vomit. In a pair we had to practice on each other how you would help somebody. My partner was my friend Casey. After that we were taught how to put a bandage on and did it with a pair. Some people won prizes like a bandage a pen that had this scroll showing D.R.S.A.B.C.