BIG NEWS - Medical Occupations Student Saves a Life!

Hi Everyone, I hope you are having a wonderful and infection-free afternoon and evening. Keep practicing your hand washing!

CONGRATULATIONS JAKE S. from the MORNING CLASS!

Jake helped save a nine-year-old girl's life by performing CPR on her at his workplace. His quick thinking, then taking action and calling someone helped make the difference in saving this young girl.  WAY TO GO !!!!!!

 

HOMEWORK: Due TOMORROW, 9/11    
QUESTIONS? Text me before 7:00 p.m. (510-305-5111)

1.Use your "link" of the chain and type up an explanation as to why this is a way to "break" the chain of infection.  Example:  "Treatment of Underlying Diseases" is on one of the links.
Type up a paragraph like this....(or copy and paste, as long as you clearly understand the vocabulary)

Decubital ulcers (bed sores due to pressure on one or more areas, patients need to be moved)

For patients with chronic wounds, efficient causal treatment of the underlying disease is mostly just as important as the actual local wound treatment for healing. The goal is to improve the disrupted micro- and macrocirculation in the skin. A diagnostic clarification of the causes of chronic wounds is, therefore, the first and basic step enabling effective treatment of the patient.  (Perhaps the patient has poor circulation in the first place and that would be an underlying disease/condition that makes the patient more vulnerable to bedsores) For causal treatment of decubital ulcers, the patient’s existing ulcers or vulnerable parts of the skin should be relieved for instance by a special decubitus mattress and regular change of position.  (25 POINTS) DUE TOMORROW

 

2. Please review your MT "quiz", the one we worked on together, definitions, etc.  Is it complete? I would like you to know if any of the words are  not actual terms/words versus the ones that are. Use a medical dictionary and we will go over it tomorrow in class.

3. BRING IN A FOOD PACKAGE TOMORROW IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY!

 

 

Check on the availability of FLU SHOTS!!!   Target stores are currently advertising.  Don't forget.....you MUST bring complete documentation and I will give you a form to take with you. 

 

DONATING BLOOD?  HOMEWORK/BRING EVIDENCE OF REVIEW BY 9/13. GO TO:
http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood
Go to left side menu and read all about donating blood
 

PLEASE PRINT OUT AND/OR SAVE IN YOUR COMPUTER: 

 

HOPE YOU CAN MAKE IT TO COLLEGE VISIT DAYS - WE MEET IN S4/MED OCCS: 

  

GHS College Visits 2013-2014 - All Med Occs Students Welcome! 

  12:00 to 12:35  (some after school or in the quad)

September

10^th – St. Mary’s College (after school)

13^th – University of Nevada, Reno

24^th – Westmont College

30^th – Santa Fe University of Art & Design (after school)

 October

14^th – Pacific Lutheran

15^th – Arcadia University

15^th – University of the Pacific (in the quad)

18^th – Linfield College

24^th – University of Connecticut

25^th – University of San Diego

29^th – University of Oregon

29^th – University of Redlands (after school)

 November

1^st – University of Idaho

 

 

HAVE A GREAT EVENING!

 

Mrs. Erceg