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Assignment: Injury & Treatment Situations

Create a short Power Point covering one of the situations of emergency/injury with the four questions listed below. (You choose which situation to address).

Title your thread a summary of your emergency (2-5 words) for example, "Stomach hurts/possible poison" or "Fell off monkey bars"

Note that the name of the ailment has not been included in the scenario, because a teacher would not necessarily be told the ailment when it happens. Research the symptoms, in many cases, it will explain what the ailment is and how to treat it.

A. Copy the scenario, with the student's name

B. Designate if your situation (hypothetically) happened in a child care setting (probably no nurse on site) or an elementary school setting (possibly a nurse on site).

C. What is the teacher's role? (assume there is no school nurse)

D. What is done to assess for signs of injury?

E. What universal precautions are used? (See Chapter 8 in your book for Universal Precautions)

F. After the immediate situation is under control, what should the teacher do next?

Choose one of the following:

A. A child begins to try and cough during lunch time- but the cough does not make noise and the child cannot talk.
B. A child is stung by a bee on the playground.
C. A child falls from the monkey bars in the school playground during recess.
D. Two children bump heads while running- one seems okay, but the other says he is dizzy.
E. A child gets sand in his eye.