Field Health Pictures!

One of the classes we took recently was Field Health. We learned how to diagnose and treat health issues missionaries would run into over seas. We needed to learn to know if the illness or injury was something we could treat ourselves or if it was something we needed to get outside medical help for. For some missionaries in the remote tribal locations a medi vac ususally involves calling in the mission plane to fly them out or a 6+ hour boat ride down the river to the nearest town.

Here's Joe one of my fellow students teaching us how to take vital signs and respritory counts.

Joe teaching us how to take vital signs.
(thanks to Kayla for the picture!)

 Then we got to practice on each other.

Practicing on each other!

Next was learning to wrap sprains and strains. 

Erin showing us how to wrap injuries.

 

Being silly and and wrapping Meridiths legs together. She thought it was funny anyway. =)

Then it was learning what a "normal" inner ear looks like and what an infection would look like using an otoscope.

Katy checking out her husbands ears.

Even sweet baby Hudson joined us.

 We learned to hear different sounds in the lungs.

Listening to lung sounds.

And last but not least we learned how to measure and give injections. This was by far the most nerve racking because we actually practiced jabbing someone!

I'm a pin cushion!