VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE COURSE OUTLINE INSTRUCTOR'S NAME: Dr. Doug Kennedy COURSE TITLE: First Aid and Safety (6:30 Tuesday, Roop 1) COURSE NUMBER: HE 201 (3 credits) COURSE DESCRIPTIONS: This course is designed to prepare students, through providing them with knowledge and skills, to meet the needs of most situations when emergency first aid care is needed and competent medical assistance is delayed. The course incorporates personal safety and accident prevention information to acquaint individuals with many causes of accidents so action can be taken to eliminate or minimize such causes. Furthermore, the course also focuses on risk management principles and the completion and implementation of a risk management plan to assess and minimize risk in recreation settings. TEXT: First Aid and Emergency Care by The National Safety Council, Risk Management by Peterson, J.A., Management Learning Laboratories. Additionally, all students must assemble a first aid kit. This will be discussed in detail. COMPETENCIES: 1. To develop attitudes, habits, knowledge, and skill for one's self-protection and the protection of others. 2. To understand what first aid is and the responsibilities that are associated with it. 3. To recognize hazardous situations, and take effective steps to eliminate or reduce hazards. 4. To understand the general procedures for diagnosis of injuries. 5. To be able to treat, in the realm of first aid, minor and major injuries. 6. To recognize hazardous situations that could result in choking, wounds, or poisoning and be able to eliminate or reduce these hazard. 7. To effectively identify potential fractures, dislocations, sprains, and strains and to give proper first aid care for these injuries. 8. To identify potential injuries and care for injuries to head area, trunk area, and extremities. 9. To effectively move an injured person from immediate danger. 10. To introduce the principles of risk management and give the student the opportunity to complete and implement a risk management plan (NRPA/AALR Accreditation Standard 8.38). 11. Appropriate measures to prevent exposure to blood-borne pathogens.MATERIALS USED: Films, Textbook, Slides, Overheads METHODS OF INSTRUCTION: Lecture, guest presentations and accident simulations. OUTLINE OF TOPICS: 1. Introduction to First Aid; 2. Victim Examination 3. Basic Life Support; 4. Shock; 5. Blood-borne pathogens; 6. Control of Bleeding 7. Specific Body Area Injuries; 8. Poisoning; 9. Burn Injuries; 10. Heat, Cold and Drowning Injuries; 11. Bone, Joint, and Muscle Injuries; 12. Medical Emergencies 13. Emergency Childbirth; 14. Emergency Transportation and Rescue 15. Moving and Rescuing Victims; 16. First Aid Supplies; 17. Risk Management CLASS POLICIES: 1. The most important policy governing this class is your ability to accept personal responsibility for all your actions and the events that effect your class performance. This means that YOU and no one else is responsible for your performance on a test or assignment, your ability to hand in work and get to class on-time, or your ability to follow directions as stated verbally or in writing. Events that are seemingly outside our control seldom are. The assignment that could not be completed on-time because the printer broke at the last-minute is NOT the fault of the printer. Rather, it is the fault of the person for waiting until the last minute and refusing to accept personal responsibility ahead of time for such possibilities. Don't wait until the last minute, don't call the instructor at the last minute, don't assume "it will all work out somehow", don't rely upon others unless you are prepared to accept their irresponsibility, and DON'T MAKE EXCUSES FOR YOURSELF. Instead, get your work done ahead of time, sit down with the instructor as soon as you have questions that need answers. if something goes wrong ask yourself how YOU could have avoided the situation and then accept the consequences if YOU in fact made a bad decision. Act maturely and impress those around you with your maturity. These are important steps in becoming a good employee, friend, neighbor, spouse, parent, and of course student. At a time when people can't accept responsibility for their own actions, the ability to do so will absolutely impress those around you. Welcome this opportunity and you'll be better off for it! The instructor happily stands ready to assist you as long as you have done everything possible to assist yourself and acknowledge your responsibility for your performance. 2. Class assignments are due on the date specified. NO LATE WORK IS ACCEPTED. NO EXCEPTIONS. 3. Regular prompt class attendance is required. You may be absent ONCE without penalty. Every subsequent absence will result in a 25% deduction from your class participation grade. If you are late for class, do not enter the room if class has started. 4. Written assignments are to be of professional quality, typed neatly with no larger than one-inch margins all around, printed in a font no larger than 12 point, easily readable in print image quality, referenced fully to source materials, and accurate in grammar and spelling. Please refer to the handout "Paper Characteristics" available from the instructor for a full discussion of grading criteria. 5. Work for this class may not have been done for any other related class at VWC or elsewhere. 6. Participation, meaning the relevant and qualitative discussion of course material, is expected. THIS MEANS QUANTITY AND QUALITY. On average, if you are not participating during each class you are not meeting the participation requirement. 7. Unannounced quizzes covering guest presentation, lectures and readings will be given. 8. The syllabus is subject to changes at the instructor's discretion during any point in the semester. Students will be notified of any changes, either verbally or in writing. 9. All class suggestions are encouraged. It's your class, if there's a topic you'd like covered, or an idea you'd like to try, see the instructor. All suggestions aid your class participation grade. 10. Students may not make up missed quizzes or tests. 11. All suspected infractions of the College's Honor Code will be turned over to the Vice President for Academic Affairs with the request that the Honor Council investigate the situation. 12. In accordance with Title 5, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as well as The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, reasonable accommodation will be provided to any student who has followed the College's procedures as outlined in the Academic Bulletin. So that the instructor can do all that he can to provide an appropriate learning and testing environment, it is requested that any student asking for accommodation insure that the instructor is aware of such requests at least one week from the time that such accommodations are needed. 13. This class will discuss a broad variety of subjects including those that may be deemed "personal" by some people. Although you are expected to act maturely, respect the feelings of others, and not intentionally cause anyone harm, you are also expected when comfortable to share your personal opinions regardless of how controversial they may be viewed by others. College is, and should be, the home of free speech and the open exchange of thought unbridled by popular norms. Say what you think, and question those with whom you do not agree. If you are not comfortable with this, or a topic of conversation, see the professor to discuss your concerns METHODS OF EVALUATING INSTRUCTOR'S EFFECTIVENESS: Standard college evaluation form. In addition, students will have the opportunity to complete a midterm evaluation and may suggest any changes at that time. METHODS OF EVALUATING STUDENT PERFORMANCE: 1. Midterm and comprehensive final exam: 50% (25% each) 2. Attendance/Participation 10% 3. Accident Simulation 10% 4. Accident Rescue 10% 5. Risk Management Plan 20% THE COMPLETION OF A SATISFACTORY FIRST AID KIT, AS WELL AS PARTICIPATION IN BOTH THE ACCIDENT SIMULATON AND RESCUE ARE MANDATORY. FAILURE TO COMPLETE ANY OF THESE THREE REQUIREMENTS WILL RESULT IN A COURSE GRADE OF "F" REGARDLESS OF PERFORMANCE ON OTHER COMPONENTS OF THE COURSE. LETTER GRADE EQUIVALENTS: A = 90-100% A- = 87-89% B+ = 84-86% B = 80-83% B- = 77-79% C+ = 74-76% C = 70-73% C- = 67-69% D+ = 64-66% D = 60-63% D- = 57-59% F+ = 54-56% F = 53 and below