Top points for CPR instructional video (by Sylvia & Rickie)

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1. Video for providing effective teaching to middle school students for our instructors:

   • Prep- Be energetic. Talk with the teacher to ask for help to engage students and ask for any pointers since they know their students better than you. Set-up equipment so everyone can view

   • Introduction-- introduce yourself and go around the kids and ask what their favorite sport/ activity is. Set-up room to make sure all kids together and not have any child sitting far away

   • Ask students what C-P-R means and then provide definition

   • Ask students why it is important to learn CPR

     • Talk to students about cardiac arrest and what it means v heart attack

   • Ask students who knows how to perform CPR

   • Ask students if they have performed or seen someone perform CPR in front of them on a real-life person and how did they feel about it

     • Ask students if discussing CPR sparks a stress reaction or response

     • Allow for mental health break

   • Go over the steps prior to CPR

     • Scene safety

     • Look, Listen, Feel (no pulse check)

     • Call 911 (speakerphone if alone, assign someone if not alone)

     • It is okay to do CPR on women

   • Now let's get ready to learn how to perform CPR-- Hand placement location on body, compression depth with full weight and leaning on top of body, rate (play song), no pulse check

     • rotate each student to perform. May start with student volunteer to demonstrate first

   • Verbally repeat the steps leading up to CPR

   • CPR competition teams perform for 5 minutes. Split into 2 or more teams and watch who can keep it going to save a life (play song)

   • Close with asking who knows how to perform CPR now (all hands should be raised) and then ask who feels like they can save a life 

     • have students verbally repeat
        

2. Video for teachers to have to provide education to students that can be used universally:

   • Welcome students and teachers for CPR education

   • Breakdown the meaning of cardiac arrest

     • Note the difference between cardiac arrest and heart attack

   • Breakdown meaning and importance of CPR

     • Also in relation to cardiac arrest

   • Go over the basic steps leading to performing CPR

     • Scene safety

     • Recognize patient is not conscious or agonal breathing (we DO NOT check a pulse with bystander CPR)

       • Look, Listen, Feel

     • Empower students at this point they can help by:

       • Calling 911 (place on speaker if alone, assign someone to call is not alone

         • 911 will help you preform CPR until help arrives

       • Performing bystander (chest compression only) CPR

       • Explain how to do CPR on women and why it is okay

   • Have a student show how to properly position hands and where to place the mannequin/ body and perform compressions. 

   • Have student teach another student about CPR

   • Interweave pauses in the videos for teachers to perform the instruction with their students.

   • Allow for mental health breaks for students who may be triggered from the trauma of CPR in previous situations.