Blog 18: Third Answer

Content:

Just like you did for answer 1 and 2 post your:

EQ: What is most important to rehabilitating a skier or snowboarder after a traumatic injury? 

Answer #3 (Write in a complete sentence like a thesis statement)*: In order to rehabilitate a patient the first hand responder needs to triage the patients correctly.

3 details to support the answer (a detail is a fact and an example):

• Triaging patients will help the first hand responder know the most severe injured patient. In a mass casualty accident there are multiple patients to deal with and the first hand responder needs to know which patient is the most severe in order to decide the order of treatment. For example, if there was a ski accident involving three skiers, where one hit a tree and had internal damage, another broke their arm, and the last one is unconscious, you would triage the patients from most severe to least severe which would be the skier that hit the tree, the unconscious skier, and then the skier that broke their arm. 
• Triaging patients will help the first hand responder know who to take care of first. Triaging means the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties. In order to triage you need to know the patient's needs or concerns and the severity of their injuries. For example, if you use the same example from the first detail once the first hand responder decides who has the most severe injury they deal with that patient first until more help arrives. 
• Triaging patients will help the first hand responder know where to send each patient. For example, if you use the example from the first detail the first hand responder would send the unconscious patient and the patient that hit the tree to a higher level trauma center than the skier that broke their arm. 

The research source (s) to support your details and answer:

• My first independent component, taking the Outdoor Emergency Care class with Trevor Samorajski helped me come up with this answer because he put a lot of emphasis on triaging patients.
• The Outdoor Emergency Care: 5th Edition book by  Deborah A. Endly, David H. Johe and Edward C. McNamara helped me come up with this answer because it talked a lot about trauma injuries and how to triage patients.
• Nurse to Nurse Trauma Care by Donna Nayduch helped me come up with this answer because this book is all about trauma patients and learning how to help them.

Concluding Sentence: In order to rehabilitate a patient the first hand responder needs to triage the patients correctly because triaging patients will help the first hand responder know the most severely injured patient, who to take care of first, and know where to send each patient. 

What's Been Going on in March?

This month I have been working on mentorship, independent component 2, and some new research for research checks.
I went to mentorship the day after we got the big storm of the season. Due to the wind there wasn't enough snow to ski or snowboard on so they didn't open the ski area but they opened snow tubing, the restaurant and scenic rides. When I went up to mentorship, I just shoveled snow, slush, and ice for 3 hours. It wasn't very fun but it was a good work out. When I took my lunch break I ate lunch in the patrol room and there was a safety seminar going on with a patroller from another mountain. I listened in as I was eating my lunch. I found it interesting and I actually learned how to check if your helmet is effective or not. In order to make sure your helmet is effective, you have to push on either side with the same amount of force applied to each side. If you see cracks  that's how you know it is defective. I plan on working on my independend component this weekend.

 Riding up the lift to mentorship.

Stormy ride up to mentorship.

After the big storm at mentorship.

 Next, I've been working on my independent component 2. I finished up the third unit at the beginning of this month. Unit 3 was all about the skeletal system. When I was working on this unit I watched videos on the vertebral column, the thorax, and the skull. I also watched lectures on the basics of the skeletal system and the bones of the lower extremities and the foot. I finished up unit 3 by reading a bit in the Gray's Anatomy book which was on the skeletal system. I finished up the lecture videos and read up on the different parts of the bone.
Finally, this month I have been looking at a new book. This new book is called Nurse to Nurse Trauma Care by Donna Nayduch. This book covers everything about trauma patients and rehabilitating them, so it's a good book for my essential question. So far I have looked at the basics of trauma which includes Mechanism of Injury(MOI) and head injuries. I plan on reading this entire book. I also plan on doing extra research checks with my Outdoor Emergency Care book this weekend.

New book I have been using for research checks. 

Blog 17: Fourth Interview

Due Date:   Tuesday March 4, 2014

Content:

Post 20 open-ended questions for approval you want to ask an expert in the field of your senior project.  The focus of your questions should be on your many answers.

If you have already interviewed someone two times, you aren't allowed to interview that same person without House teacher approval.

The interview itself is not due till Friday April 11 to turnitin.com.   However, we want to give you as much time as possible, so we are asking you to complete the blog now. Remember that in addition to turning in the interview, you also need to turn in the verification sheet to your House teacher.

1. What is most important to rehabilitating a skier or snowboarder after a traumatic injury?
2. What is the best way to rehabilitate a patient after a traumatic skiing or snowboarding injury?
3. What experiences have you had with patients and traumatic injuries?
4.What steps did you do to ensure the patient was under the best care possible?
5.How would you help the patient with regaining their mental strength after a traumatic injury?

6. How would you help the patient with regaining their physical strength after a traumatic injury?
7. What experiences have you had with patients getting Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD)?
8.  What is the best way to help a patient with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD)?9.  What experiences have you had with any type of trauma(thoracic, abdominal, pelvic,etc.)?

10. What type of trauma is the hardest to deal with(thoracic, abdominal, pelvic,etc.) Why?

11.  What type of trauma is the easiest to deal with(thoracic, abdominal, pelvic,etc.) Why?

12. What experiences have you had with Traumatic Brain Injuries(TBI)?

13.What is the most important step in your assessment and management of the patient before you hand them off to a higher level of care?

14. What can you do to ensure that the patient rehabilitates on time?

15. What struggles have you had with helping a patient recover after a traumatic injury? How did you overcome them? 

16. Why do you think the Mechanism of Injury(MOI) or Nature of Illness(NOI) is important to know for the process of rehabilitating a patient? 

17. What is the best thing you can do when you hand off your patient to a higher level of care,to ensure that the patient gets the best treatment possible? Why?
18.What is the hardest step in your patient assessment and management? Why?
19. What is the most important thing to know about trauma or trauma patients? Why?
20. Out of the trauma calls you have been on, which one sticks out the most? Why?