CAREER CENTER: Students earn First Aid, CPR and AED cards

The Health Science/Nursing AM and PM classes at the Career Center learned how to do First Aid this past week.

The student “victims” wore make-up to look as if they had real wounds. Their classmates then had to apply dressings, bandages and splints. All of the students that performed this correctly and finished the course received a First Aid card from the American Heart Association.

The classes also learned how to do cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR. The students were taught how to perform CPR on adults, children and infants. They also learned how to perform abdominal thrusts to relieve a choking person and how to use an automated external defibrillator, or AED.

All of the students that performed this correctly and finished the course received a CPR AED card from the American Heart Association.