School Field Observation Report

On March 8th, I went on a school field trip to the JATC building to learn more about some health career options. I was given three classes to attend which were Nursing, Speech/Language Pathology, and Physician's Assistant. I learned a lot from these classes and I think this event was very beneficial. First, I went to Nursing. In this class they had us watch a short video that went over the basics of nursing and what it would entail. The people giving the class taught us how to give CPR, how to use a doppler ultrasound to listen to your pulse, and they also taught us about the heart and how it works. I learned that you give about 120 chest compressions per minutes on a person that is unconscious and not breathing. You give hard, quick presses to the chest right under the sternum. You use your palms on top of each other to be able to provide enough strength to hopefully get your patient breathing again. I learned that while

This was not one of the classes I had originally planned on going to, but I got to go there all the same. One thing I learned is that you hear the largest range of sound you will ever hear when you are the age of ten. After that, the hair follicles in your ears start to die. This is why most older people have a hard time hearing because they don’t have many hair follicles still functioning normally. Another thing I learned is that in the ear on the cochlea, there are many rows of tiny hairs. They are all in little formations and have rows of three starting with long hairs and moving down to shorter hairs. They are in the shape of semicircle which makes sound echo inside the ear. Because of this, most people can hear well. A third thing I learned is that serious head injuries that can result in a variety of brain malfunctions. Two of which are where you can speak, but don’t make any sense and when you can think of what you want to say and how you want to say it, but you can’t get the words out