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INOVACIJE I IZAZOVI U OBRAZOVANJU I SESTRINSKOJ SKRBI - KNJIGA SAŽETAKA
How Students Participation in Red Cross Activities
Contributes to Later Education through Nursing School
The Red Cross is one of the oldest humanitarian organizations in the world, which carries out its
numerous activities through national societies in as many as 192 countries. In Croatia, the Red Cross
has been active since 1878 with the establishment of the first voluntary associations in Zadar, Zagreb
and Dubrovnik. Today, the Croatian Red Cross operates through many activities such as prevention of
human trafficking, organization and coordination of voluntary blood donation, preparation and action in
crisis situations, search for missing persons, training of rescuers, promotion of health through public
health actions and many others. In addition to all of the above, the Red Cross organizes and conducts
first aid training for primary and secondary schools, where students, passing through the training, gain
basic knowledge of providing first aid procedures to injured or suddenly ill persons. Additional
motivation for young people to learn is achieved by organizing a first aid competition, which is held
every year on as many as 3 levels. The age of secondary school students who access the training is
usually between 16 and 18 years old, which means that secondary school students in the 2nd and/or 3rd
grade attend the training. In the context of nursing school students, it can be observed that certain
knowledge and skills acquired during first aid training greatly help students through further education.
Skills such as primarily good communication, assessing the condition of an injured person,
organizational skills, providing assistance to the injured, basic life support procedures from infancy to
adulthood, etc. During their education, medical school students have a subject called Emergency
Medical Procedures, which is directly related to with first aid, which they had previously learned. In
addition, this paper will present a lot of common points that first aid has with the medical school
curriculum, as well as many advantages of first aid training for medical school students.
Key words: Red cross, first aid, nursing school, education
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