During this week’s CPR and Naloxone training we discussed many critical points and had some significant takeaways. One of the more valuable things I learned when administering Naloxone was that it isn’t harmful if you aren’t having an overdose, this means if you are in a situation where you aren’t sure if someone is overdosing you can inject them with Naloxone without any fear of harming the individual. Naloxone covers the same receptors that the drug uses, neutralizing the effect but if there is no drug in the system it will counteract nothing which isn’t harmful to the patient. Another takeaway I learned is that in a scenario where you are administering CPR you are very likely going to break the patient’s ribs, and if you do break the ribs it means you are pushing deep enough. Previously I believed that the ribs breaking only happened in specific cases and was to be avoided when in reality it is going to happen and is a good indicator of proper technique in your CPR. The final major takeaway I had from our two presentations was that Naloxone is not to be injected into the veins in the arms, but instead into fatty parts of the body: butt, thighs, and shoulders are all good examples of proper places to administer Naloxone.

Critical and Reflective Thinking Competency Reflection

“I can analyze evidence to make judgments.” I demonstrated this by taking the evidence that we know and dissecting it into critical important pieces and less important information, this is an important aspect of critical thinking because it makes you take what you KNOW and decipher what you NEED from it.