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Accompanies Lesson: 2

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Objectives

Students will:

  • identify four responses to illness or injury: taking care of oneself, seeing a doctor, going to the emergency room (ER), calling 911 or an ambulance.

Teacher Notes

Using this Teaching picture to establish the four responses to illness and injury discussed in the LifeFacts. In order to be independent, informed healthcare consumers they must understand the medical system that exists in their own settings. Students must be aware of a range of responses to illness and injury - responses that match specific levels of severity of illness and injury.

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Note: The availability of medical services differs between communities. Modify the lessons as necessary to discuss relevant options for your students.

Teaching Questions

These pictures show for ways of taking care of ourselves or getting medical help or advice when we are ill or injured, these four ways of getting help to get well are called responses. The response a person takes to an illness or injury depends on how serious the illness or injury is.

  1. Take Care of Yourself. Many illnesses and injuries are not severe and simply need time and rest or very simple first aid to help the person feel better.
  2. See Your Doctor. People usually go to see a doctor if they feel worried or have questions about their illness or injury.
  3. Go to the Emergency Room at the Hospital. If a person is feeling very badly and can't reach their doctor or is very worried about their illness or injury, they should ask a friend to take them to the emergency room at the hospital.

Call 911 or an Ambulance. If a person is feeling badly (in extreme pain, unconscious), can’t reach a doctor, is very worried about their illness or injury, or is too weak to travel with a friend to the emergency room, the person (or their friend) should call 91l or an ambulance to have medical help come (wherever they are).

Can you think of a time when it would be best to take care of yourself at home? Can you think of a time that would make you want to go see a doctor at a clinic? To go to the emergency room at the hospital for medical help? To call an ambulance or 911 to get emergency medical help right away?

Life Assessment

Ask: What can a person who is ill or injured do to get help? What are the four responses shown here? When would it be most appropriate to use each of these responses?

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Important: These Teaching Questions reflect only part of the instructional content presented in the LifeFacts: Managing Emotions Teaching Guide. Please carefully read the corresponding lessons(s) in the guide prior to instruction. We recommend that teachers develop their own discussion questions to fit the functioning levels of specific student audiences.