The Nursing Basics Branch at the College of Nursing, in cooperation with the Continuing Education Unit and the Continuing Education Unit of the College of Education for Humanities (Ibn Rushd), had organized a workshop entitled (First Aid) in the presence of a number of professors and staff of the college as well as students of undergraduate and postgraduate studies.
The workshop was presented by the Assist. Prof. Dr. Aqeel Habib Jassim, Assist. Professor Dr. Tahseen Rajab Mohammed, lecturer Dr. Haider Mohammed Majeed and the lecturer Dr. Ahmed Fleih Hassan with the aim to define first aid provided by a specialized or non-specialized individual to a person in a situation threatening his life or causing disability or severe pain, due to a sudden illness or accident, in order to preserve his life and prevent complications until being transferred to the hospital or the arrival of the medical team. The professors stressed the importance of training in first aid since the specialist may face moments that reflect the difference, God willing, between life and death, namely in cases of temporary or permanent disability, speedy recovery and long treatment.
The workshop included an introduction to first aid and its importance through the current situation experienced by our dear country, and who is the paramedic who performs this aid and his/her characteristics that enabling the provision of healthcare to the injured until the arrival of the medical team. The lecturers shed light on a detailed explanation of burns, their causes and also how to identify them, in addition to the types of wounds to avoid complications of infection that lead to delay the process of healing or even death. The workshop also dealt with poisoning of all kinds, causes, the most important signs and symptoms and how to provide the right first aid to the injured in time.
