By: Blonde One
I am excited to share with you a fantastic scheme being run by the British Heart Foundation which is enabling many students to be trained in basic CPR. We have recently discussed the issue of First Aid training in schools in a previous blog where our delightful MPs didn’t quite see things the Blonde (accurate) way, and I hope you are getting the picture by now that us Blondes don’t need the ‘say so’ from anyone, never mind MPs, to do what’s right. Obviously the people at the BHF are a little bit Blonde too. So, I applied for one of the FREE Call Push Rescue kits and this is what arrived. It’s a big red bag full of the bits and pieces needed for CPR training, including dummies (a bit scary looking), instructional DVD and knee mats. I eagerly await the first opportunity to get them tested.
If you’re involved with any school, community project or youth group why don’t you see if you could get your own. https://www.bhf.org.uk/heart-health/nation-of-lifesavers/call-push-rescue
Wot a terrific scheme! Tackle for Tickers. You’d think our so-called government would realise that such things save a fortune in practice.
Oh lookie! I’m back on board – ta eversonicelythankyou. Breakfast wasn’t the same without the Two Blondes to chat to.
Look, this seems simple enough to work out, but could I just point out that you’re at it again! Giving the young people you teach, the chance to stand a little taller than others. Giving them the potential to be a life-saver. What greater gift could anyone bestow upon another than the ability for them to continue a life? That’s the real potential you’re giving your pupils – the ability for them to let someone else continue their life, rather than leaving them unprepared to do anything else except perhaps watching it end. If faced with the potential of loss of a life before them, will your students only be able to wring their hands or cover their eyes in distress? No, they’ll be able to do something more positive that could bring a better outcome for everyone. That’s the potential those pupils will take everywhere with them, able to pass on to anyone they might just encounter who needs their life saving. It’s the gift you give those pupils, potentially for them to give not just to whoever they might save, but to the family of that person as well. Here we all are at Christmas time, giving and receiving gifts and feeling smug, yet the present you give to your pupils to give to everyone else wherever they go is rather more valuable methinks. And MP’s don’t understand this you say? Pffffft. What great duffers they show themselves to be by comparison. I shall eat my last slice of delicious Christmas cake in honour of you and your pupils, ladies. Well done to all.
Duffers (a favourite word in household B2) indeed. Let’s hope we actually get the opportunity to use the equipment in 2016 and do some first aid training … we have to fight for such things these days!