Thursday, August 4, 2011
The judges screwed us over?!!?
So today I competed in the HOSA CPR/First Aid Regional competitions. Since we placed first in the online competition, we were first to perform the skills. The lady I guess had never been a judge before (which is why I hate going first!!! Me and my partner had a choking patient and a patient with a broken arm).....I did everything flawlessly, except I told my partner to call 911 after I began compressions because there was so much going on and the first aid victim was screaming like a maniac (only 2 out of 90 points)....after about 3 cycles of CPR and checking the airway, the judge was like, "The object is visible".....I was like....its only been like 3 minutes.....I removed the object and did everything I was supposed to do and the judge was like, "The patient is breathing and has a pulse..." I was like....okay...so I placed the patient in a recovery position and performed a secondary survey from head to toe. Found nothing. By this time my partner was assisting me (3.5 minutes into it).....and then the judge said the EMS had arrived. It was unfair because we were supposed to do two rescuer CPR (after she handled the first aid victim) and we had 12 minutes to do so!! We finished in like 4-5 minutes and the judge didn't even give my partner a chance to assist in CPR! Her assisting is half the points. Then I learned that all the other teams finished their competitions in like 11-12 minutes and I was like, "wth?!" then I went to talk to the tabulation booth who said, "they would take it into consideration"...I would at least think they would let us restart or start from where she would assist me. We ended up getting fourth place! When we deserved first! We needed to get third to advance to state. I want to call the national hosa branch because we worked our butts off for this competition and no one is taking us seriously! I talked to my friend who was a patient and she said that me and my partner scored 4th place bcuz we didn't do two person CPR so we lost all of those points. We never even got a chance to because the judge stated that the object was visible WAY before she should have!!!! I'm so upset. I feel like a failure but it wasn't my fault.
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