First Aid - Danger Shop, Friday, Period 5 [Week 1]

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This workshop roster was a lot smaller than last term's, and that made things easier to deal with everyone on a one-on-one basis. Hawkeye left a note outside the Danger Shop asking everyone to gather and wait there until it was class time. The doors opened right on time and the students were then able to enter, only to find themselves in a very different environment to the school building they had left.

The room looked exactly like the school gym in the dorms building only it was littered with cots full of injured people, people attending to them and curtained off areas where surgery was going on. More and more wounded people were being brought in and loaded onto cots. Every so often outside there was a thunderous boom and crash coming from somewhere outside making the building rock and shudder from the vibrations. The lights were dimmer than usual and would momentarily dim further after the shaking.

In between loud noises, the gym was surprisingly quiet. Shoes would squeak as people walked on what was once the basketball court. Over near the weights area, doctors would call for a suture or suction or for more light or a new patient to put back together.

Hawkeye, dressed in scrubs, made his way through the foot traffic to his new students.


"Welcome to First Aid. I'm Hawkeye Pierce. I'll learn your names after we deal with the wounded who are piling up. Today's not bad for a pretty bad day. These people aren't real and you won't recognize any faces, but this has happened before and it could happen again tomorrow with people you do recognize who are real and who will need your help. They could be your roommate or the kid you sit next to in class or your best friend. You're here to learn how to help them. Get started. Pick a patient, find out what's wrong with them and tell me what you see and what you think. Decide on a number to give them. 0 for beyond help and I'd better not find any of you giving anyone a 0 today, 1 for those who need immediate attention, 2 for those who need medical attention as soon as there's an opening that's not an emergency, 3 for minor injuries that can wait. Tell your orderly the number. I don't care how much or how little experience you have with injuries. You have to start somewhere. Time to go."


[OOC: Please check the OOC note before jumping in! | Class Info Post & Roster]

Comments

Sign In

[drywitmartini.livejournal.com]

Reacting to the situation!

Re: Sign In

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

Dru Anderson

Re: Sign In

[glacial_queen]

Karla

Listen to Hawkeye

[drywitmartini.livejournal.com]

Get your bearings, figure out what's going on, listen to your instructions, comment on how you feel about the situation to your fellow classmates.

Re: Listen to Hawkeye

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

Dru kept looking around as Hawkeye spoke, taking in the situation. This wasn't exactly what she'd been expecting from a first aid class but she supposed it was a little more interesting then watching videos.

Re: Listen to Hawkeye

[glacial_queen]

As soon as Karla entered the room, she felt herself slipping into full-on Healer mode. She kept an ear out for what the professor was saying, but was already scanning the patients nearby. The ability to listen while multitasking had been a hard-earned lesson in the early days of her training.

When he stopped speaking, she raised her hand. "We're not trying to help anyone today?" she asked, making sure she had half-heard him correctly. "Just giving numbers and moving on?"

Re: Listen to Hawkeye

[drywitmartini.livejournal.com]

"It's pretty safe to assume that if you're taking this class, you don't have the skills to help these people. We'll work on that. The idea is to give them a number so the orderly can move them on to the doctor or nurse who can treat them in the right order."

Re: Listen to Hawkeye

[bamf-tastic.livejournal.com]

Kurt stared at the carnage in horror. Every time an explosion burst, he flinched.

Eventually, he crossed himself.

Re: Listen to Hawkeye

[heromaniac]

Momoko had actually chosen this class, but this was totally not what she'd expected it to be like. She'd expected... well, a classroom, for one thing. Not really the gym filled with wounded people while it sounded like a war was going on outside!

She also wasn't expecting to have to determine whether or not someone who was hurt would get medical attention.

"Can I go outside and fight instead?" She was only half joking; how could she say no to getting someone help?

Re: Listen to Hawkeye

[drywitmartini.livejournal.com]

"After the period is over, you can go outside and fight a tree as much as your heart desire's," Hawkeye replied.

Re: Listen to Hawkeye

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Bruce's face was blank. Two gunshots and pools of blood defined who he was half his life ago. He wasn't about to let a simulation like this affect him.

He listened to the instructions carefully as he tried to map out the best way to get through large groups efficiently and, more importantly, effectively.

Triage

[drywitmartini.livejournal.com]

Pick a cot and figure out what's wrong with your patient using only what you know. If you don't know anything, then you'll still have learned something today! Hawkeye wants to hear what you see, sense and feel about the patient and their condition. If you're going solo on a patient, make a decision and tell the orderly what number you're assigning to the patient.

Re: Triage

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

The patient Dru picked was an older man. He had a bleeding scalp wound and was holding his arm tucked close to his body.

Re: Triage

[glacial_queen]

The room was bad, but not 'burned-barn-full-of-landens' bad, so it still wasn't the worst she'd ever seen. Holding that reminder close, Karla immediately began walking down the rows, projecting soothing calm as she did.

The toughest part of this class would be remembering not to use Craft, she could tell that much already.

Re: Triage

[drywitmartini.livejournal.com]

A hand reached out from one of the cots, trying to grab at Karla to get her attention. The hand belonged to a boy around Karla's age with blood on his face from a gash on his head. His right leg was at an awkward angle and from the vague but anguished look on his face, he was struggling with both pain and consciousness.

Re: Triage

[heromaniac]

Momoko agreed rather quickly with the teacher that she wasn't going to be giving out any zeros. She was almost positive she wasn't going to be giving out any threes, either.

As much as she didn't want to, and wishing all the while she was outside instead, Momoko made her way to the next unattended cot.

Re: Triage

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

When the instructions were over, Bruce made his way over to a cot, trying to figure out the best questions to ask and in what order to ask them.

Re: Triage

[bamf-tastic.livejournal.com]

Kurt took a deep breath and headed toward the patient that looked the absolute worst of the bunch. No better way to learn than to dive in headfirst, right? He wasn't about to get queasy from the sight of the injuries, but he did wince in empathy.

"Und how are we feeling today?" he asked, feigning chipperness.

End of Class

[drywitmartini.livejournal.com]

Hawkeye was over at the controls and the program ended. While it was only an hour, there was no telling how it had actually felt for everyone in the room. It might have seemed like forever or gone by quickly. The patients and gym disappeared and they were in the empty Danger Shop.

"We'll do the same thing at the end of the workshop's run," Hawkeye explained. "Maybe you'll be able to do more. Next week we're going to talk about what you want to learn while you're here. Think about it this week and come prepared. Questions are our friends." With that, he gave a little wave and opened the doors. "Tata."

Talk to Hawkeye After Class

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He's here for all your needs.

OOC

[drywitmartini.livejournal.com]

* These are generic NPCs ranging from freshman age to adults. You won't find any familiar faces here.
* You can work solo or together
* Either mod your patient (assuming wounds from an invasion including explosions. They totally don't have to be gory. Go with your comfort zone.) or flag me down in this OOC thread for an NPCing tonight - most of the US afternoon I will be asleep!
* Tell Hawkeye what you see and think about the patient or, if you don't want interaction, go ahead and give the orderly a number
* If your character needs to leave, that's okay! If you want Hawkeye to react to that, come and ping into the Talk to Hawkeye thread and I'll be right with you

Re: OOC

[glacial_queen]

Karla would like an NPC here, please!

Re: OOC

[heromaniac]

If Momoko could get an NPC, please?

Re: OOC

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

If you throw an NPC here (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh/2528886.html?thread=163678838#t163678838), I promise Bruce won't pick them up by the ankle, dangle them off the roof, and question them that way.

Re: OOC

[bamf-tastic.livejournal.com]

If it's not too late, Kurt could use an NPC over here (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh/2528886.html?thread=163681654#t163681654).

If it IS too late, I'll go try to help Batman with that shark.