During March of 2020, a few other classmates and I went on the HOSA trip. The trip was to the annual state conference held in Atlanta. One could imagine the appeal of getting to go to a huge event in a nice hotel in Atlanta where you could compete in areas you hope to persue and also have some freedom to explore.
That being said, this was my second year going on the trip. As it was my second year and I felt like I had some understanding of what the conference was like, I wanted to try to compete in an event that you had to qualify for. In my opinion, the events that require qualifications are more interesting and hands on (they also center a lot more on the medical aspect of HOSA). In order to be qualified for an event you have to take a test and score in the higher percentile.
After spending some time looking through the different options available I decided I wanted to try and compete in CPR First Aid.
I spent some time studying, but obviously it wasn’t enough as I didn’t qualify.
After this happened I ended up settling on a different event and forgot about it.
That was until a couple of weeks ago when I was looking for CAS ideas online. One of the recommendations was to learn something like CPR. This reminded me of my failure as well as the fact that I never really learnt how to perform CPR.
This week I went to the Red Cross website and found a section that gives the instructions on how you properly perform CPR. I spent a bit of time reading through this and even practiced on a stuffed animal! I also found a few other tips and tricks for conducting CPR (which sounds weird to say), including a playlist by the New York Presbyterian Hospital that has a number of songs that you could use to properly perform CPR (as their tempos match about 100 beats per minute).
From this experience I obviously learned how to perform CPR, but I also was forced to think about the significance of learning something like this. Multiple occupations and organizations require their employees to have some form of training that teaches them how to perform CPR, but there’s also a large amount of people who don’t know or who don’t feel like they could perform CPR properly.
This is just one of multiple examples how we have moral responsibility to our community to learn some forms of knowledge, because in some situations having just one person know could mean life or death.
(No picture in this blog because I don’t exactly want to post myself in an awkward position :D)
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