When you’re doing these skills in a clinical environment, there’s an element of control and support from other colleagues, but in the community you just have to trust your learning and your instincts and do it on your own.
We have to learn the skills as part of our course and I’d encourage anyone to learn what to do when someone’s choking, along with basic CPR.
Nurses support people every day by providing critical care in hospitals, primary care, charities and the community, and actions like Joana’s and Billie-Jo’s ultimately helped to save a man’s life.
Mr Daniel Clarke
Lecturer in Adult Nursing at the University of Plymouth’s Exeter School of Nursing, and a former emergency care nurse
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