GENTRY — Saving lives was on the agenda during a special class held Saturday at the Gentry Middle School. Eight students, seven of them high school seniors from the current patient care assistant class and one a school staff member, took the American Heart Association cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) class taught by Mary Bailey, nurse at the Gentry middle school, and Yolonda Moll, also a nurse and an early learning experience instructor for Northwest Arkansas Community College.
For the PCA students, the training and CPR certification were required in connection with their ongoing medical training. But for all, it's a training which could be needed at any time to save a life.
Included in the instruction was how to do chest compressions, artificial breathing and use of automated external defibrillators or AEDs.
General News on 02/17/2016