Immunization - Call to Action Speech

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Put yourself in this situation… your working in a child care facility or as a school teacher when a child falls backwards from rocking in a chair at lunch. He hits his head, its cut, and is heavily bleeding. What is your immediate reaction? If you said find a pair of gloves then you are about 1 in a million, after surveying numerous teachers over the past few weeks a teachers first response is to grab the child and cover the wound with the first thing they found handy to clot it. Even though we have been taught a thousand times before through trainings and information videos and pamphlets the first thing you should do is put on gloves, but as a teacher you grow a bond with the children in your class and after a while you think of them as your own, that combined with the responsibility to protect them at all times your first thought when they are in pain and injured is not to go rummaging around for gloves before tending to the injured child. This exact situation happened in my classroom a few weeks ago, and my reaction also was to grab the child without gloves. After I stopped the immediate gush of blood, I asked a co-worker to get me gloves. However, I realized my hands and arms were already covered with this child’s blood and I was fully exposed to any diseases this child may carry. Then I realized, I wasn’t aware of the medical history on this child, so how could I know if I was at any serious risk? I then began to wonder as a caregiver why I didn’t know the medical histories of the children in my classroom. This bothered me knowing that I could not have access to their medical histories. So today I will tell you the training vs. instinct that teachers deal with on a daily basis, what diseases are transmitted in schools, and why teachers don’t know medical histories of their students. In the past I have taken multiple First Aid classes. In these classes we

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