1. What is your working EQ?
What is the most effective course of action a bystander can take in a medical emergency?
2. What is a possible answer to your working EQ? Please write the answer in thesis format.
EQ: What is the most effective course of action a bystander can take in a medical emergency?
- Treating the injured patient(s) to the best of your ability.
- Assesing and taking control of the medical emergency.
3. What is the most important source you have used that has helped you come up with an answer to your working EQ?
My most important source is First Responder by J. David Bergeron and Chris Le Baudour, which is a textbook used in most California EMT/EMR classes. This helped me come up with my answer because it goes into great detail about incident assesments and the Good Samaritan laws, which protect citizens who try to help save lives in medical emergencies.
4. Who is your mentor, or where are you volunteering, and how does what you are doing relate to your working EQ?
My mentor is my dad, whom is an EMT for the United States Forest Service and teaches incoming firefighters First Aid techniques. I work with him and other EMTs at marathons and I assist in teaching some of his classes. This relates to what I am doing by helping me learn new first aid techniques and allowing me to get hands-on experience in minor medical emergencies.
1. Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.
For my 30 hours, I will be working at a 100-mile marathon in Long Beach in November and a 24-hour marathon in January. I have worked at events like these before, but strictly as an observer. Now that I have a First Aid/CPR card, I will be independently treating patients as if I were an actual EMT. My mentor will be providing a first aid bag for me so that I will need to use my personal knowledge of the equipment to best treat the patients.
2. Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.
For the event in November, my mentor will be taking short videos and/or pictures of me treating patients. As for the event in January, I have been discussing with Angel Flores the possibility of him coming with me and my mentor to the 24-hour marathon and using his photography expertise. This way, he will be able to receive experience and hours by taking pictures of the event for the event coordinators and, as a trade-off, he will be taking pictures of the EMT's and I treating patients.
3. And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.
These two events will help me better understand my topic because I will actually be using the knowledge I have acquired in real-world situations. There is no better way of learning First Aid than by actually practicing it.
