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In this video we’re going to demonstrate how to conduct a skill evaluation for a group such as a skill evaluator with a group of people or a classroom instructor in the classroom. So to be ready and be prepared, first you need to make sure you have the proper mannequins and equipment that you’re going to need for the skills that you’re performing. Make sure that you have the proper decontamination equipment such as bleach and water spray for mannequins that you need to clean off between each student or the lung system for the type of mannequin that you would replace the lung for each student. The other thing you want to make sure to have is your skill evaluation sheets. Your skill evaluation sheets will help you to have the skills laid out step by step so it will keep you on track and help you to stay focused with your students. The other thing is to make sure that when you place the mannequins to have them placed properly so that there’s enough space between the mannequins in order for the students to be able to perform the skills correctly. Well we’re ready for the classroom, so students, come on in! We’ll go ahead and get the students situated by their mannequins and that way we’ll be ready to actually start the skills. So in this scenario what we’re going to do is as the instructor I’m going to teach the classroom or work through the whole entire scenario as the instructor with the students doing this at the same time. Alright students what we’re going to do is we’re going to go through the CPR scenario. So we’re going to start with checking the scene for safety. So everyone check the scene for safety. Looking around, making sure that there’s nothing that’s going to hurt you and the scene is safe. So now we’re going to go ahead and check the person. You check the person by tapping and shouting. There is no response and you don’t see the chest rising and falling. It does not look like the person is breathing so at this point you’d want to call 911 so go ahead and point to someone, call 911. Person and since we’re doing lay rescuer CPR for this scenario we’re going to start right into compressions right away. So go ahead. So now as the instructor I see a student really struggling with the compressions and I need to correct that student so rather than calling out that student in front of everyone and saying ‘hey you—you’re doing that wrong’ well that would be embarrassing to the student you want to approach that student directly and talk to them so I’m going to come in and I’m going to work with the student individually. Hey Dan I noticed on that compressions there were some things here that we could improve upon and what we’re going to do is we’re going to put the heel of the hand directly in the center of the chest. Great. You want to take your elbows, lock your elbows nice and straight so kind of like just like this up on your knees there you go. Good. And now lean down as you’re doing the compression letting your body weight do the work of the compression. Excellent. That’s exactly it. Perfect. Want to be going at least 2 to 2.4 inches deep at a rate of 100 to 120 compressions per minute. Very good. Very good. Great, that’s exactly right. So we’re going to do 30 compressions that way and now go two breaths. So make sure to open that airway. Good. And when you’re opening the airway make sure you’re pinching that nose. Excellent. How do you know how much breath to put in? Does anyone remember that from the video? Speaker 2 (female): ? When the chest rises Speaker 1: Good chest rise and fall. We want to see that chest rise. Once we see that chest rise you know you put enough air in. Great alright let’s continue back to compressions. Good compressions. Good. Going at a rate of 100 to 120 per minute at a depth of 2 to 2.4 inches deep. Excellent compressions and we’re going to do 30 compressions. Good. And we’re going to do two breaths. Excellent. Very good. Great. Once you have finished talking the students through the full scenario and you’ve watched the students and you’ve corrected any skills that need to be corrected now it’s time to go ahead and practice the scenario again. Allow the students time to practice and you as the skill evaluator/instructor with the group may want to actually prompt the students through the skills. Not telling them what to do in each step like you did when you walked them through the whole scenario but giving them a prompt like saying for example the scene is safe and say something like the person is not moving and not breathing, what would you do? And giving them those types of questions and wanting to see them actually do what they should do in that skill scenario. After you’ve completed the scenario make sure to mark the student as passed on the checklist and then continue your group with the other skills that need to be accomplished in the course.
Conducting Classroom Skills