Lesson 13.4: First Aid and Emergency Procedures

Overview

This lesson focuses on the importance of knowing basic first aid and being able to recognize an emergency exists. Analyzing how social influences may encourage or discourage individuals to take care of themselves in a medical emergency and assist others will also be addressed.

Learning Targets

  • Discuss the emergency action steps.
  • Explain why you should use universal precautions.
  • Describe the steps to giving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
  • Identify the differences between a closed and an open wound.
  • List the four types of injuries to muscles, bones, and joints.
  • Describe two thinking and remembering signs or symptoms of a person with a concussion.

Preparation

For the Warm-Up Activity: Write the journal question on the board, or identify (and copy as needed) the worksheets you plan to use:

For the Content Focus: Open the Lesson 13.4 PowerPoint slides, or make copies of the Lesson 13.4 Note-Taking Guide.

For the Lesson Focus: Copy the Lesson 13.4 Analyzing Influences on Sun-Safety Practices Skill-Building Challenge Worksheet.

Warm-Up Activity

Select a warm-up activity to help get your class focused and on task.

  • Journal Question: What steps would you take if your guardian said they weren’t feeling well and suddenly collapsed onto the floor?
    • Option: Write or project the question, and have students respond in their journals as they enter class.
    • Option: Have students discuss the question with a partner or in a small group.
  • Vocabulary Review: Have students work individually, in partners, or in small groups to complete the Lesson 13.4 Vocabulary Review Worksheet.
  • Quiz: Have students complete the Lesson 13.4 Quiz to assess their prior knowledge.
    • Option: Collect the quizzes, and use them alongside posttests to demonstrate student learning.
    • Option: Have students share their answers with a partner, and then go over the answers together as a class.

Lesson Content

Review the content from the textbook lesson.

Option: Use the Lesson 13.4 PowerPoint slides to review the chapter content.

Option: Have students use the Lesson 13.4 Note-Taking Guide to review chapter content.Ask students to work alone, in pairs, or in small groups. Review the questions as a class if time permits.

Lesson Focus: Analyzing Influences on Sun-Safety Practices

  1. Provide one copy of the Lesson 13.4 Analyzing Influences on Sun-Safety Practices Skill-Building Challenge Worksheet for each individual or pair of students.
  2. Have students work individually or with a partner to complete the assigned task.
  3. Have students follow the instructions on the worksheet to identify the different influences involved in the scenario.
  4. Have students share with the class or in small groups their answers to the questions.

Challenge Activity

Have students who need an additional challenge work on the following critical-thinking task.

Create a story about a person who gets heat exhaustion and another person or persons who provide the correct response to the situation. Make your story realistic and factually correct.

Reflection and Summary

Review the critical content from today’s lesson. Review the learning targets, and ask students to answer each question posed.

Can you…

  • Discuss the emergency action steps?

    Check the scene and the victim.

    Call 9-1-1.

    Care for the victim.

  • Explain why you should use universal precautions?

    Universal precautions are taken to reduce the risk of transmitting pathogens. You want to protect you and your patient from blood-borne illnesses and other infectious diseases.

  • Describe the steps to giving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)?

    Perform 30 chest compressions and then two rescue breaths. Chest compressions squeeze the heart, which moves blood to the brain and other vital organs. Rescue breaths deliver oxygen to the lungs.

  • Summarize the steps in caring for a choking adult or child?

    Give five back blows directly between the shoulder blades and then five abdominal thrusts just above the naval, thrusting inward and upward.

  • Identify the differences between a closed and an open wound?

    Closed wounds consist of bruises and internal bleeding. There are four types of open wounds: abrasions (scrapes), lacerations, avulsions or amputations, and punctures.

  • List the four types of injuries to muscles, bones, and joints?

    Injuries to the muscles, bones, and joints include sprains, strains, dislocations, and fractures.

  • Describe two thinking and remembering signs or symptoms of a person with a concussion?

    Difficulty remembering new information

    Difficulty thinking clearly

    Difficulty concentrating

    Difficulty remembering events that occurred just before and just after the incident

    See also table 13.4.

Assessment

Complete one or more of the following assessment tasks for this lesson.

  • Quiz: Have students take the Lesson 13.4 Quiz.
  • Vocabulary Review: Collect the Lesson 13.4 Vocabulary Review Worksheets, and evaluate them for accuracy.
  • Note-Taking Guide: Collect the completed Lesson 13.4 Note-Taking Guides, and spot check one or more items for completion and accuracy.
  • Skill-Building Worksheet: Have students submit the Lesson 13.4 Analyzing Influences on Sun-Safety Practices Skill-Building Challenge Worksheets, and use the Health Communication Holistic Rubric to evaluate their skill development.
  • Journal Question: Ask students to respond to the journal question again, adding information they learned from today’s class. Require a one-paragraph response that uses proper grammar.

Take It Home

Check your first aid kit or whatever medical supplies you have at home to see whether you have dressings and bandages you could use if someone cut themselves and had severe bleeding. Make a list of items you need to create or improve your first aid kit.