Can you save a life? Students at the School of Tourism and Hotel Management and the Vocational School of Tourism and Hotel Services learn how to save lives in a 12-week course. The class, taught by Dr. Nuriye Örer, prepares students to deal with such emergency situations as fainting, bleeding, choking, fractures, bee stings, and frostbite.
Students learn first-aid and CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) both in theory and in practice. The theoretical part of the course is taught in the class, through the use of handouts, models, posters, videotapes, and a dummy. The students are then given the chance to apply their knowledge by performing abdominal thrusts and CPR on the dummy in a simulated case of choking. As seen in the picture, there is a monitor connected to the dummy to tell the students how successful they are in saving a life.
In order to pass the course, students must receive a mark of 30 out of 30 in the practical exam; in other words, they all must know how to save a life perfectly well! Dr. Örer says, "When there is an emergency, students are taught to check for a doctor first before taking full responsibility. However, brain damage occurs in about 4-6 minutes. They are not doctors, but there is a good chance that these students can keep the brain alive until a doctor or an ambulance arrives--as happened last term with one of our students, Neslihan Demiran (THS/II)."
Knowing how to save a life is a quality addition to the education of a student who will work in the tourism field. It is good to know that there are people who care enough to be trained to save lives.
