Blog 7: Independent Component 1 Approval

1.  Describe in detail what you plan to do for your 30 hours.

I plan on taking an Outdoor Emergency Care(OEC) Class for my 30 hours. This class focuses on the basics of first aid for the outdoors and what to do in different situations. This class is almost the equivalent to an EMT class, its just a step under an EMT class. The class description from the National Ski Patrol website is listed below. 

A sequenced, competency-based education program that prepares candidate patrollers and other outdoor rescuers without previous first aid or EMT training to handle the emergency care problems encountered in the non-urban setting. The knowledge and skills learned are oriented toward the wilderness environment, with special emphasis on ski and snowboard injuries, high-altitude and cold-weather illness, wilderness extrications, and the special equipment needed for emergency care and transportation in the outdoor environment. Students are required to participate in comprehensive lessons with skill and scenario application, complete various workbook exercises, take a final written exam, and demonstrate their skills and knowledge in final scenarios. Challenge students and course students are required to demonstrate all the skill performances and complete the same final written exam and practical scenario evaluation.

Here's a link to the class syllabus:

http://mthighskipatrol.org/index.php/13-oec/4-2013-oec-syllabus

2.  Discuss how or what you will do to meet the expectation of showing 30 hours of evidence.

Since this isn't a class that you get a grade for, I won't have a transcript so I plan on showing my certificate of certification. This is a class that you get certified for like a CPR/First Aid class or an EMT class. I;m just going to prove I did my 30 hours by showing my certification. 

3.  And explain how what you will be doing will help you explore your topic in more depth.

Taking this OEC class will help me explore my topic more by giving me more knowledge on first aid and how to respond to different calls/scenarios. In this class they give you scenarios and you work with your group to get the best possible care for your "patient". This helps with understanding how responding and going on a call will feel when it comes down to that.  It will also give me a deeper understanding of how patients will feel because of the hands on experience when I get to be the "patient" for practice. When they give us the scenarios we take turns being the "patient", so we get a feel for how it would feel to have a spinal cord injury and have people assessing you and putting a cervical collar and being strapped down on to a long spine board. Lastly, it will teach me more about the different supplies ski patrollers use such as a cervical collars, splints, toboggans, traction splints, long spine boards, etc. 4.  Post a log on the right hand side of your blog near your mentorship log and call it the independent component 1 log.