Project First Aid
Advocating for first aid
Project First Aid was started in AY 2021/2022 with the aim of providing Nursing students with the opportunity to learn first aid, as well as practice our skills on conducting health education to others. The Project started with the mission to to be an advocate for first aid awareness by empowering nursing students to educate our communities on general First Aid.
For AY 2022/23, Project First Aid is working with St John Singapore, to teach Nursing students on the importance of first responder skills. Equipped with the knowledge and know-how, the students from the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies (NUS Nursing), National University of Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine will then share their knowledge by teaching these skills to others. Some of the skills learnt include primary and secondary assessment of the situation, management of heat injuries and burns, simple bandaging, and many more!
Having been equipped with the knowledge, the nursing students were able to then spread and share their knowledge and experience, which the Project First aid members did so in a nursing carnival event.
Our Project First Aid members were also able to further serve the local community by providing first aid support in the 2023 BizAd Club’s annual night cycling event, BizVenture. Please read one of the beneficiaries’ testimony here.
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The NUS Bizad Club would like to give a huge shoutout to NUS PFA for providing safety coverage during our 2023 Bizventure night cycling event. With over a hundred participants at this event, the team worked tirelessly and seamlessly to ensure smooth running of each and every one of the game stations as well as throughout the cycling route. Not only did they make sure that all participants were well hydrated, they also tended to all injuries with great care. It was truly a pleasure to be able to collaborate with a team of well prepared and professional first-aiders, and this event was only made possible with their help! Looking forward to working with PFA again!
-Chan Joon Yew, Keith Emmanuel
Project First Aid was founded in AY21/22 in collaboration with St John Singapore, Southwest District. Unlike our medical counterparts, nursing nurses are not exposed to first aid. As such, our project aims to increase the awareness of the NUS Nursing student population to first aid. This not only helps to achieve the nation’s aim of having at least one first aider at home, but also potentially increasing our nurses’ competency as first aid is very much similar to nursing!
With St John Singapore’s expertise in first aid, we empower our nurses to make a difference between life and death by imparting useful first aid skills to them.
The project culminates in a First Aid Carnival, where nursing students pay it forward and teach the NUS population basic first aid skills. It is hoped that, in the future, the carnival will be of a greater scale, hopefully targeting the neighbourhoods surrounding NUS.
-Bay Rui Ze, Bryan
