Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Senior First Aid Assessment

How did you do?
Here is the assessment from yesterday have another go and then check your answers.
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1 . A casualty can be treated without consent if:

a) ordered by the work manager
b) the ambulance will be delayed
c) religious beliefs prevent treatment
d) the casualty is unconscious

2. Under NSW Legislation it is compulsory to keep which of the following records in
the work place:

a) an incident report form
b) a register of injuries
c) a medical history of employees
d) injury statistics for each month

3. A teenager is bleeding from a large cut on the hand. Your first action would be to:

a) cover the cut with your hand and press down
b) put on a pair of gloves, from your first aid kit
c) leave it alone until the ambulance arrives
d) ring the parents to come and collect the teenager

4. You are alone and discover an unconscious casualty. Before checking for breathing you should:
a) roll them on their side and check their mouth for visible obstructions
b) leave them on their back and check their mouth for visible obstructions
c) tilt their head back and give them two rescue breaths
d) leave the casualty where they are and call an ambulance

5. The purpose of the head to toe assessment is to:

a) identify immediate life threatening conditions
b) ensure that your casualty is comfortable
c) provide reassurance to yourself and the casualty
d) identify the casualty's less obvious injuries
6. A friend has burnt their arm while lighting the barbeque. their shirt has stuck to
their skin. You would:

a) cool the burnt area with cool running water
b) peel off the stuck fabric before cooling the burn
c) immediately apply gauze to the affected area
d) immediately apply a burn cream to the affected area

7. A conscious person known to have a heart condition is complaining of chest pain and shortness of breath. You would ask the casualty to:

a) sit down and take deep breaths
b) sit down and take their heart medication
c) sit down and take two Panadol tablets
d) sit down and have a brandy

8. Your friend's teenage son is suffering a severe asthma attack. You would:

a) assist him take four puffs of his reliever inhaler
b) lie him down and wait for an ambulance to arrive
c) encourage him to take three or four big breaths
d) assist him take one puff of his reliever inhaler

9. To manage a suspected fracture of the leg you should:

a) give the casualty two paracetamol for the pain
b) apply an ice pack to the affected area
c) pack and support the leg in the position found
d) splint the leg and drive the casualty to hospital

10. The management of a sprain or strain in the first 24 hours after an incident
should always include the application of:
a) a heat pack for 15 minutes every two hours
b) an ice pack for 15 minutes every two hours
c) an ice pack for 15 minutes every four hours
d) a heat pack for 15 minutes every four hours
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11.An unconscious person has a head injury with blood leaking from the left ear.
You would position the casualty on the:

a) back with both legs elevated
b) right side with bleeding ear up
c) left side with bleeding ear down
d) semi sitting with a pad over the ear

12. The correct management for a penetrating chest wound is to place:

a) plastic wrap or aluminium foil over the wound and tape three sides
b) plastic wrap or aluminium foil over the wound and bandage in place
c) a gauze pad over the wound and tape three sides
d) plastic wrap or aluminium foil over the wound and tape four sides

13. A worker has suffered a severe injury to his abdomen and you can see a piece of
intestine sticking out. You would:

a) place a ring pad over the intestine and bandage
b) leave the intestine uncovered to dry out
c) cover the intestine with aluminium foil or plastic wrap
d) wash with antiseptic to prevent infection

14. The management of a serious eye injury includes:

a) sitting the casualty up and covering both eyes
b) sitting the casualty up and covering the injured eye
c) laying the casualty down and covering both eyes
d) laying the casualty down and covering the injured eye

15. A person is suffering from heat stroke. You should move them to a cool place,
remove their excess clothing, and place cold packs to their:

a) forehead and shoulders
b) ankles, wrists and neck
c) lower back and groin
d) neck, groin and armpits


16. A gardener is wet, shivering and appears tired and confused. He complains of
blurred vision and has slurred speech. To manage this casualty you should:

a) move him to a warm place and slowly warm him up
b) remove any wet clothing and rub the casualty's arms
c) give him some whisky or other spirit to drink and reassure
d) encourage him to run around then give him a warm drink

17. A man attempting to suck petrol out of his truck accidentally swallows some. He
looks pale and feels ill. You would:

a) give him a glass of milk to drink
b) give him salty water to drink
c) immediately contact the Poisons Information Centre
d) make him vomit by putting fingers in his mouth

18. The immediate management of a conscious casualty with diabetes with low blood sugar is to give them:
a) a drink high in sugar
b) an insulin injection
c) a drink of water .
d) nil by mouth

19. An individual known to suffer epilepsy is having a fit.
Your immediate management would be:

a) have people restrain the casualty's arms and legs
b) protect them from injury until the fit stops
c) put something in their mouth to protect their tongue
d) observe them carefully and call an ambulance

20. An elderly man has fallen to the ground and cannot get up. He cannot speak
properly and his left arm appears paralysed. You would:

a) help him to the nearest chair to sit down
b) ask him if you can call his relatives
c) call an ambulance giving them the exact location
d) ask him if he would like a drink of water

Monday, November 12, 2007

Answers

1 d
2 b
3 b
4 b
5d
6 a
7 b
8 a
9 c
10 b
11 c
12 a
13 c
14 d
15 d
16 a
17 c
18 a
19 b
20 c

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Senior First Aid course


Hi everyone.

As you all know the First Aid course starts on Tuesday the 6th November. It will be held in Building A First Floor Conference Room ( where we heard Grant speak today).

The course on on for four days

Tues 6th Nov 9am -1:30 pm

Wed 7th Nov 9am -1:30pm

Tues 13th Nov 9am - 1:30pm

Wed 14th Nov 9am - 11: 3o Exam 11:30-1:30pm

We do not have a lot of time so please study the work sheets at home.

DON'T BE LATE to class on Tuesday as it will start on time.
Remember you must try to attend all the days in order to pass the exam.
Good Luck
Sally

Another alternative quiz

Copy onto word and fill in your answers. Remember there is no right or wrong answer, this is a vocabulary building exercise.



1. Name a game played either on the beach or at a picnic.

2. Name a job that involves climbing ladders.

3. Name a topic of conversation on a first date.

4. Name something you eat at the cinema.

5.Name something you have more than one of in the bathroom.

6. Name something you associate with Spain.

7. Name any subject families argue over.

8. Name something which has a handle on it.

9. Name a glamorous job.

10. Name something which requires a signature.

11. Name something white.

12. Name something people can have improved by plastic surgery.

13. Name a food associated with Italy.

14. Name something which comes in pairs.

15. Name a type of musical instrument which you blow.

16. Name something a stranger on the street might ask you for.

17. Name something that works with a battery.

18. Name an item you would take on holiday with you.

19. Name something that people are frightened of.

20. Name something you would do if you won the lottery.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Can you think of a question?


Hi Guys,

Thursday again.......hope you all remembered to bring your email addresses!

Look at the photographs and click on comment. Now write a question about the photo.

Can you remember the questions from last week? DON'T LOOK!

No 2


No 3


No 4


Tuesday, October 23, 2007

An Alternative Quiz

Copy the quiz onto a word document and start writing.

There are no right or wrong answers to this quiz, write down what you think and we will see how many people think the same!


1. Name a household chore done at least once a week?

2. Apart from a waltz name any other type of dance?

3. Name a dangerous instrument for a naked musician?

4. Name an irratating or annoying habit.

5. Name an excuse for leaving a party when you are not enjoying it.

6. Name somewhere where you would see a NO SMOKING sign.

7. Name the most attractive feature in a man.

8. Name all the colours of the rainbow.

9. Name something often smuggled through customs.

10. Name something a man likes to show off.

11. Name a famous painter/artist living or dead.

12. Name something you like doing that is not good for you.

13. Name your favourite day of the week.

14. Name a job you'd hate to have.

15. Name the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning.

16. Name something that is considered bad luck.

17. Name a state in America.

18. Name something that would embarrass you.

19. Name a play by Shakespeare.

20. Name a musical instrument you could easily play in the bath.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

THE BULLDOGS


THE SMARTS


THE TIGERS


WELCOME BACK

Welcome back everyone and welcome to our new students Abbey, Su and Amelia.
The general knowledge quiz you wrote yesterday was so much fun I decided to see if you remember any of it!
Of course we all know a lot about Al Salvador now, don't we. Thanks Patricia!


But this time I want you to fill in the missing words!
Copy this document onto word, call it General Knowledge Quiz and start working.

POP MUSIC AND______________

Who was the star of Rock and Roll music in the 19___________'s?
Answer_________________

Where was the movie __________Proof Fence made?
Answer______________

Who ________ the song Menimo do Pelo?
Answer______________

How many keys are on a ________________?
Answer________________







SPORT
How many _____________are on an ice-hockey team?
Answer________________

When was the __________ Football _________ Cup?
Answer__________________

What is the name of the Brazilian ___________player who plays for Sydney?
Answer_______________
Who ______________107 runs last week in the cricket math between Sydney and India?
Answer__________________


FOOD
What is the most _____________Thai dish?
Answer_____________________

___________does Beef Rendang come from?
Answer_______________________

What is the traditional food of El ______________?
Answer_______________

_________ is the traditional drink of Central _____________?
Answer_______________



HISTORY
What was the capitol of Thailand before ___________?
Answer__________________

How many _____________ has Thailand had?

What is the date of independence _________ in El Salvador?
Answer______________

What is the __________ion of El Salvador?
Answer________________



GEOGRAPHY

What are the ______________ of the Indonesian flag?
Answer__________________

When did Indonesia become in________________?
Answer_____________________

How _________ colours are in the El Salvador flag?
Answer______________

What is the most ______________ city in the world?
Answer_______________


SCIENCE AND NATURE.
What _________ diamonds made of?
Answer_______________

What size is a baby ______________when it's born?
Answer__________________

How many _____________ are in Australia?
Answer_____________

How many tigers are in _______________ Zoo?
Answer______________________

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Watch out for those tigers!


Do you know who this is?
Can you guess where he is?

Hint: Morning tea.

If I could be an animal I would be a ........


Yes I'm sure you've guessed.
Does Anthony look scared? Next time you see him ask him!

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Bundeena excursion

Thursday September 13th 2007

Hi everyone,
Hope you enjoyed our trip to Bundeena last Thursday, please read the following article which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday.



If you want to read a shorter version of this article click here.

Please click on comments at the bottom of this post and tell me what you thought of the rock carvings. I want everyone to post a comment!

Sally

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Thursday August 16th 2007

Good afternoon everyone. We've spent a lot of time on grammar this week and it's not over yet so click on Time4English and get working. Ask me for the password.
Go to menu.
Then grammar book.
Click on T.
Then click on tenses chart and print.
Go back and click on countable and uncountable nouns and do the exercises.
When you have finished do exercise 7.F Do/Does/Did
Good luck and a lolly for Bo who worked so hard to get your pictures up last Thursday, thanks Bo.
Sally

Sunday, July 15, 2007

Welcome back everybody.


Hello class,
Hope you all had a great holiday. I had a lovely break, lots of relaxing and doing absolutely nothing!
Those of you who joined me on the visits to the gallery and the MCA, I hope you enjoyed it, I certainly did! What was your favourite work of art?Perhaps you will share it with the rest of the class.
I also want you all to think about our excursion and where you would like to go.......lots of ideas please.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Shorter article Rock Carvings

Bruce Elder finds a wealth of ancient Aboriginal art around the NSW capital.
If you have a sense of history and you stand on any one of the hundreds of vantage points overlooking the harbour, it is hard not to wonder about the life of Sydney's Aborigines before 1788. How idyllic must it have been to have lived on Cremorne Point or North Head, never worrying about the mortgage or the huge new extensions being added by the neighbours?
Imagine wandering down to the shoreline, levering a few oysters off the rocks, catching a Balmain bug or two, perhaps doing some fishing and then returning to gaze across the harbour at the eucalypts and sandstone on the opposite shore.
Eighteen years earlier, on April 29, 1770, Captain Cook appeared to be trying to understand the locals when he recorded in his journal: "All they seem'd to want was for us to be gone." Of course they did. No one wants paradise ruined. Never has "there goes the neighbourhood" seemed so apposite as when the First Fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour.
Today, modern Sydney has obliterated most evidence of the estimated 4000-8000 Daruk, Dharawal, Garigal and Guringai speakers who lived in the Sydney basin before 1788. There are few remaining shell middens. There are no remnants of settlement and little evidence of camp fires. But this does not mean pre-European Sydney has disappeared.
The nature of the city's predominant rock - Hawkesbury sandstone - and its flatness and softness has meant rock carvings abound. You can spend a day - or two - rediscovering Aboriginal Sydney and vicariously rubbing shoulders with the people who enjoyed life at its best in the Sydney basin long before the descendants of Europeans decided views that were once free were now worth $20 million. With few exceptions, the rock carvings are on rock ledges that have superb views of the harbour and the Tasman Sea.
Jibbon Head, Bundeena
A day at Bundeena is worthwhile even without the added attraction of some of Sydney's finest rock carvings. Take the ferry from Cronulla or drive through the Royal National Park to this charming outpost. Before Europeans the original inhabitants were the Dharawal, whose land stretched from Botany Bay to Jervis Bay. For tens of thousands of years the locals swam, fished, made canoes from bark, carved, holidayed and camped on the pristine shores of Port Hacking. Jibbon's great secret is that Jibbon Headland has one of the finest collections of Aboriginal carvings in the Sydney basin. Walk the length of Jibbon Beach, find the track at its eastern end, walk through the unspoilt bushland for about 400 metres and, almost hidden from view (it is located to the left at the top of a short set of stairs), there's a large sandstone outcrop with carvings that include a local mummaga (law giver), a stingray, a killer whale more than 11 metres long, a turtle, a kangaroo and a murrera (an initiated leader).
Bulgandry engravings, near Gosford
Turn off the Pacific Highway to Gosford south into Woy Woy Road; 2.7 kilometres along is a poorly signposted turn-off to the car park for the Bulgandry Aboriginal engravings site. It is a short walk along a path to a large, flat rock outcrop. A pathway has been built around the circumference of the site.
There are good information boards nearby that explain what is known of the Guringai and the etchings. The figures are of men, women, marine life, kangaroos and canoes. It is not known to what extent they form a narrative. They probably started as a charcoal or scratched outline that was then made permanent by "pecking" holes along the outline with a pointed stone, with the area between the holes later rubbed away.
Red Hands Cave, Blue Mountains National Park, Glenbrook
Drive to Glenbrook, 64km from Sydney, stop at the Blue Mountains Tourist Information Centre (on the Great Western Highway) to get directions and then head south off the highway, past the railway station, down Glenbrook's main street and into the national park. A day pass costs $7. Follow the signs to Red Hands Cave, which is a 14km drive from the main gate (10km on dirt road), to see some well-protected and well-preserved red handprints and stencils.
The walk from the car park to the cave is a reminder of how peaceful and silent the Australian bush can be.
The handprints and stencils are artworks from the Daruk people, who lived in the area for more than 14,000 years.