Saturday, October 2, 2010

Here's the last 2 reflections from our fellow cadets who went for the First Aid Competition;

Chi Yu
3 things I have learnt: I am sort of(90%) the overall in-charge for FAC this year as I am the First Aid I/C in our committee. It is really tough for me as I am also involved with Student Council activities during the same period of time. One thing I learnt is actually to get things done efficiently. To gather important information about the competition and planned out the training. I made lesson plans as well as deployment of VIs to teach the participants. The second thing I learnt is time management. Sometimes SC activities would clash with FAC training, I would split my time and my workload. As I have a efficient partner( Hui Yee) to help me with SC activities, my workload can be reduced. Thus I am able to spend more time to oversee FAC training. Time management is important, we need to prioritize our time properly, if not we neglect other things. Next thing I learnt is to take my job/role seriously and be committed to things I had to. Do not give up halfway. Be serious and focused. As I am a leader that is leading my fellow cadets, I cannot give up.

2 things I have encounter: Insufficient training also lead to lack of preparation. A good quote I know, “If you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail.” Indeed. Also, the lack of knowledge the participants know about the main judging criteria, especially Evacuation and also First Aid. We do not practice this two ‘subjects’ often during our trainings. Thus it kinda start from scratch.

2 things I can improve from it: Do more preparation before the competition. Especially more training. Which compromises, bonding with each other, motivation, practice.
3 things I have learnt: I learnt to be more well prepared and less complacent as I was taking the theory paper. I kinda overestimated myself. Another thing learnt is to learnt from mistakes and move on. “Failure is the key to success.” The third thing learnt is be confident of what you’re doing. As long as is reasonable and safe.

2 things I have encounter: Not well prepared and confident. Few questions I did not know how to answer in the theory paper. Be there to support each other as some might feel discouraged after knowing that we lost.

2 things I can improve from it: More preparation. Learn to stand up after falling.

Genewaye
I have learnt more evac skills during the training as I do not know much for evac except for stretcher drills. For example now I know what semi recumbent is and how to move the casualty. I have also learnt more about my teammates during training sessions and bonded more with the sec 2s in the competition team. I have also learnt that when doing the over obstacle even though I did it before I had a lot to improve on. I have encountered challenges such as the stretcher squad at the beginning did not execute the drills together. I have also encountered that even though I knew how to execute the drills I still needed a lot of practice. I think we could have improved by having more training and also I could have improved by reading and knowing some of the stuffs that I needed to know

I have learnt to expect the unexpected as during the competition the obstacle was different from the one we were used to doing during the trainings. I have also learnt to keep calm even though I felt really nervous when I stepped into the competition ground. I have also learnt that I should be more prepared for example for my case I reached school late in which everyone had to wait for me. I have encountered problems like we did not realised that there was a cleaning solution for us to clean the wounds and I think we were too nervous and forgot to check what we had in the first aid pouch. We also encountered that for the stretcher squad we did not expect the obstacle to be wide. I think we could have improved by having more training so that everyone knew what they need to do more clearly. I also feel that I could have improved by brushing up my first aid skills.

posted at 9:37 PM by GDLSS RCY