Blog 21: Mentorship

Content:

LIA Response to blog:

    Literal

·     Log of specific hours with a total and a description of your duties updated on the right hand side of your blog

Look at right hand side of blog under Mentorship Log. 

·     Contact Name and Mentorship Place

David Mix (909) 981-9041

    Interpretive

     What is the most important thing you gained from this experience? Why?

I learned important multiple skills a patroller needs to know in order to become a better patroller from mentorship. Some of the skills I learned was how to set up rope lines, tying knots, stalking/testing medical supplies, and learning how to handle the toboggan. Another skill I gained was training new patrolelrs. I trained one candidate a bit over Christmas break. I showed him around the mountain and I showed him how to set up rope lines. I also trained a lift operator that was taking the medical class my mentor was teaching. I helped him learn about all of the medical supplies like the oxygen tanks, sager splints, hare splints, c collars, and head beds.All of these skills are important because even though these are pretty basic skills for a patroller, this will put me ahead of anyone applying for a patrol job. Also, all of these skills with the addition of more, is what makes a patroller a great one. Mentorship gave me an insight of what the patrol life is truly all about. 

   Applied

     How has what you’ve done helped you to answer your EQ?  Please explain.

Throughout mentorship, my mentor, David Mix would talk to me about how to rehabilitate a patient. He would quiz me on my OEC skills like what all the acronyms stood for.  My mentor quizzing me has helped me answer my essential question because he always quizzed me on the same things over and over on different days. I began to realize that all the questions he were asking me during these quizzes were vital steps in being a first hand responder. These quizzes helped me guide my answers to my essential question and they were the basis of my answers.