Learning activities

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References

• First Aid Handbook
• Street Safety
• First aid herbal care

Links below are small group activities.

Field Operations and Prevention

Friday night
3 hours 5 minutes

1. Welcome
2. Peers and pros
   • Meet Stacy
   • History and Ethics
3. Cooperative care
   • Choose a buddy with PEARL
4. Informed consent
   • Aaron’s scalp laceration
5. Goodnight
   • Low point/high point debrief
   • BOINK reflection

Patient Assessment and First Aid

Saturday morning
5 hours 30 minutes

1. Morning welcome
2. Scene safety
   • Communicating about a scene
   • Videos for scene assessment practice
   • image of buddy vision
   • image of making privacy
3. Spreading calm
   • Buddy check-in
   • Support without rescuing
4. Body substance isolation and do no harm
5. Focused assessment
   • FGH
   • SAMPLE
   • OLDCART
   • History practice
6. Head trauma
   • in Handbook
   • in Street Safety

break

7. Scenario
   • Debrief questions
8. Wound care
   • in Street Safety
   • in Handbook: Wounds
   • in Handbook: Deep wounds
   • in Handbook: Infection
   • images of hot soak: 1, 2
9. Breaks, sprains, strains
   • in Handbook
   • in Street Safety: Blunt trauma
   • in Handbook: Broken ribs
   • in Handbook: Bruises

LUNCH (12:45)

10. Why first aid works
11. Burns and blisters
    • in Handbook
    • in Handbook: Electric shock
    • in Handbook: Chemical burns

Emergency Response

Saturday afternoon
5 hours

1. Transition and triage
   • Hurricane Sandy, heatwaves, and mass evictions
2. Intro to patient assessment system
   • STOP 12345
3. Lowered level of responsiveness
   • in Handbook
   • AEIOUTIPS

break

5. Airway and breathing
   • in Handbook
   • in Handbook: Allergy
   • in Handbook: Chest wounds
   • in Handbook: Poison and call 1800-222-1222 (poison control)
6. Preparedness line
7. Mechanism of injury (MOI) and C-spine injury
   • in Handbook
8. Circulation
   • in Handbook: No heartbeat
   • in Handbook: Bleeding
   • in Handbook: Shock
   • in Handbook: Abdominal injury

break (with snacks and hot drinks)

9. Scenario
   • Debrief questions
10. Disability and environment

SUPPER

12. Medic collectives

Community Health Work

Sunday morning
4 hours 15 minutes

1. Morning welcome
2. Medical emergencies
   • in Handbook Heart attack
   • in Handbook Diabetic emergency
   • in Handbook Seizure
   • in Handbook Loss of consciousness
3. Determinants of health
   • Rose’s struggle

break (with snacks and hot drinks)

4. Small group practice time

Operating in Unsafe Scenes

Sunday afternoon
4 hours 45 minutes

LUNCH

1. Camp clean-up and getting home
2. Eye flush
   • Eye flush 30 min training outline (also linked from Street Safety)
   • Eye flush tik tok (also linked from Street Safety)
3. Environmental injury
   • Best dressed protester 10 min training outline (also linked from Street Safety)
   • in Handbook: Cold
   • in Handbook: Heat
4. Police and fear
   • Cops and crowds 10 min training outline (also linked from Street Safety) and handout (from Street Safety)
   • Handbook: Police weapons
   • Street Safety: Extreme distress
   • Video models of distress response
5. Practice and debrief

break

6. Acknowledging those who have died
7. Medic kit
   • in Street Safety
8. Confidentiality and help
   • image of how to save crisis numbers
9. Self-evaluation and conclusion
10. Training evaluation

SUPPER and organizing for action