Monday, November 3, 2008

Risky Business

Is about teenagers that work during there summer vacation. Work is good because you get to met new people, add something on your resume and also may learn a new skill you might actually use later in the future. You get paid for working so you can spend it or you can save it for something that you really wanted. There are about 70 teenagers that die each year from injuries related to work and thousands visit the emergency rooms. If you are working at a restaurant you should always wear nonslip shoes so you fall down and use a dry cloth to carry hot dishes also use tong not your hand. These are just some tips to stay safe if you ever work in a restaurant. Folding clothes, and running a cash register isn’t so dangerous but it has a high numbers in deaths because there is a lot of crimes. Here are some tips to stay safe. Avoid straining your back. Make sure you know what to do it there is ever a robber also never work alone. If you ever work outside like as a lifeguard you may have to look out for sunburns and drink lot of water so you won’t be dehydrate. Also wear a hat, sunglasses, and sunscreen.

High-Tech Nursing

This article is about a little boy named Michael Higgins. He is eight years old and he lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. He goes to school at Cherokee Elementary school where he collapsed when he was walking to his classroom. He heart stop beating and stop breathing in the hall ways. That’s when a teacher saw him and sends a student to go get Musser and also call 911. Musser is a registered nurse she used a high tech device to restart his heart. She shocks him in the chest with the two pads. After she shocks him, he started to breath again. The high tool she uses is a high tech tool that is called automated external defibrillator, or AED. Paul Smith trained RN from Colleyville, Texas. He makes and talks about high tech devices like endoscopic vein harvesting. It is use normally by surgeons by removing large vein in the leg also reroute blood around a blocked artery in the heart. Student nurses have to use high tech mannequins before they can care for there patients. They use tools like SimMan it is a full body mannequin that has like real heartbeats, pulses and breathe sounds. Students practice on saving lives on SimMan.