CPR Reflection and Core Competencies

CPR Reflection

What was something that you learned that you didn’t know or consider before?: Something I hadn’t considered before beginning my training on CPR was how easy it is to retain the information that might help one day save someones life. Going into this I thought CPR was something that required months of training to get right and learn, but within a week I’m confident of my skills going into both the written and practical test.

What is a takeaway from the Theory or Practical CPR unit?: A huge takeaway is that I can now know the information in order to save someones life if CPR is required. My dad isn’t the healthiest person, so if worst comes to worst he has a heart attack I now know how to recognise and react to him having a heart attack.

How does this unit connect to the previously discussed nutrition unit?: A connection would be the beginning of the 4 R’s, risk. Many of the risks for a heart attack involved diet and lifestyle choices. Diets high in cholesterol were more susceptible to heart attacks. In the nutrition unit we learned the benefits to a balanced diet, and CPR showed us how to save someone who might not be on a balanced diet.

Self Assessment Of Core Competencies

I take on roles and responsibilities in a group; I do my share: For this whenever we did partner scenarios, I always took initiative and even put in a bit to much into my acting. I did my part and sometimes a bit too much.

I persevere with challenging tasks and take ownership of my goals, learning behaviour: I’ve taken learning CPR very seriously and have left very little room to fool around. I’ve filled out two different review manuals to make sure I’ve studied to the best of my ability. I will even ask for a third if I’m allowed.

I am kind to others, and support others when they need it: While doing the drills, I never made fun of someone if they did something wrong or forgot to do a step. I’d remind them, give them tips or show them an example on proper hand techniques.

I give, receive, and act on feedback to progress in my goals: As previously mentioned, I give feedback to my peers but I’m not perfect myself. I’ve been in a situation where I forget a small step, but a small step might contribute to something larger, which in the case of CPR can mean life or death. I’ve done my best to retain as much information as possible to make sure I pass the practical and written tests.

I find it easy to be part of a group: I have a bit of trouble when it comes to working in a group for CPR. I “hog” a bit of chest compressions, which results in me wearing myself out. When instead I could do 2 sets of 30 then swap out with a partner and repeat that process. This is something I’m hoping to improve upon. A way for me to improve upon this would be to remember to not wear myself out, because if I wear myself out I’m basically useless.

My Storyboard

Quickly just want to apologize for the quality, also for shot #2 Talking about the Music/Sound it’s a hard to see so I’ll repeat it here. Music/sound: When Edward slices the leg off of the topiary the brass and percussion instruments crash to give more of an effect.  

Tim Burton, in Edward Scissorhands, uses a really interesting type of lighting in this scene, where the sky may be black but the lighting around Edward is still bright as day. And from what I took from that was that even though it’s night Edward is surrounded by a lot of light, it shows he’s not a villain, he’s just conflicted and he’s been holding in so much anger because the people around him even though he’s been kind to them they’ve been treating him like a tool with no emotions. In my storyboard I mentioned how I made the sky black but kept the lighting to day, in shot #4 I turned the lamppost on but it didn’t do very much because you could still see everything as clear as day hehe. The only shot where it was night was shot #3 where I had to make the outside dark because that’s how Helen was in the movie but I made the walls on the inside white to make her house a little brighter looking on the inside. I feel as if this makes Edwards rampage a little more justifiable as the townsfolk take what Edward gave them for granted.

My graphic novel adaptation really taught me how much symbolism can be put into a movie, and I never watched Edward Scissorhands before this and I thought it was a simple kids movie (Which it’s not) but it’s crazy how much planning was put into this movie. Never did I think while watching Edward Scissorhands I’d take the lighting as a form of symbolism, at least that’s how I felt on my first viewing of the movie.