Last First Aid basic training

Time flies when you’re having fun! We had a great time with the 20 students who followed the First Aid basic course. We taught them for about ten weeks. They learned a lot of things about CPR, wounds, bleedings, burns, fractures, etc. We teached them the theory, but we did practicum as well. Today it was our last day with these students so we promised them an ‘afterparty’. We brought some pies, drinks and music. They actually didn’t like the dutch music, so we were happy they had some music with them as well. We were both very suprised about the speech they had for us. As well for about the song the sing for us. 

    
This is what the class said to us: “We appriciate what you have taught us so far. On behalf of everyone, we just take this moment to say thank you very much. You come to us all the way from the Netherlands and you shared your apple of knowledge with us. We just thank you very much and we’re feeling very benevolent for wat you did. We are grateful. You inspired us and we are thankful to you. You also have brighten our future because of this first aid and life sciences. Trust me, we are going places far. May the lord bless you with a long life. Long life to you guys.”

Besides the party the students received a summary of the theory of the basic training, a certificate and a group picture we made one week ago. The students were zo thankful. It was great to see them for the last time and we will miss them a lot!! 

  
We just have two trainings left with the advanced group. The last five weeks they learned all about CPR for an adult and a baby, animal bites and stings, Rabies, burns, bleedings, factures and gunhot and stab wounds. Especially the last subject was really interesting for these students. In these township a gunshot wound or stab wound is so common, so it is good to teach the students about that. Next Thursday we will teach their knowledge about the things we tought them and the week after we will have an ‘afterparty’ with these students as well. The 28th of May is, unfortunatly, our last day at Sinenjongo High School. We are going to miss the school, but we’re sure we will come back once. 

See you soon, 

Marleen and Floortje

Developing the HWFA in PulseWeb

Since we shadowed the RCW’s, our main task has been to develop the HWFA module into the e-learning program PulseWeb. To do that we needed content from UCT to put into the program. This content contained a pretest, a manual, case studies, an assessment form and a final exam. Our first idea was to make tiles for the different Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO’s) and link the manual and case studies to those tiles, so it would look like this:

Later we found out the case studies and examinations were not specific to certain ILO’s, so we decided to change the lay-out and got to this:

We think the lay-out is a lot clearer and easier to understand, because it is less busy. We also added some practice questions, because we could only add multiple choice questions into the final examination. So we used the open questions from the final exam as practice questions.

For one week in April, a delegation from Avans University came to Cape Town to see how the projects were going and how they could expand their contacts in South-Africa. We presented our project to them and we had a nice picknick with all of the Avans students on a beautiful location in Noordhoek.

Next week the current RCW’s will come to UCT for one day and we will test the usability of the e-learning module.

See you later!

Sanne, Yvonne & Lars