{"id":19405,"date":"2016-12-14T09:30:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=19405"},"modified":"2016-12-14T09:32:15","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T15:32:15","slug":"baylor-nursing-grads-quick-actions-saves-lives-at-two-dallas-area-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2016\/12\/baylor-nursing-grads-quick-actions-saves-lives-at-two-dallas-area-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor nursing grads\u2019 quick actions save lives at two Dallas-area schools"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jessica<\/p>\n

This holiday season, two Dallas-area families are celebrating stories that have a happy ending thanks to the life-saving actions of two school nurses — each of whom graduated from Baylor\u2019s Louise Herrington School of Nursing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In two separate incidents, Jessica Haas, BSN \u201997, the school nurse at Wallace Elementary in Richardson, and Annie Young, BSN \u201906, the school nurse\u00a0at Lake Highlands Elementary in Dallas, came quickly to the aid of individuals who had collapsed on their campuses and provided life-saving care when their actions counted most.<\/p>\n

On Nov. 15, Haas was walking out of her school\u00a0when she realized a woman needed help<\/a>. Sarah Maupin, the mother of a Wallace student, was leaving a parent-teacher meeting when she went into cardiac arrest and collapsed outside the school. Haas quickly apprised the situation, grabbed\u00a0an automated external defibrillator (AED) — a device used to revive people suffering from cardiac arrest — and came to the woman’s\u00a0aid. Haas’\u00a0critical care in the immediate moments after Maupin’s\u00a0collapse saved her life and likely kept her out of intensive care.<\/p>\n

Less than two weeks later, 13-year old Joe Krejci was running in his P.E. class at Lake Highlands Middle School when he collapsed on the school track<\/a>. His coach called 911 and sent the fastest students to get the school nurse. \u201cSomething in my gut,\u201d Young says, \u201ctold me to stop and get the AED.\u201d Krejci wasn\u2019t breathing and did not have a pulse when she arrived, but the teamwork of Young (providing chest compressions and CPR) and a school coach\u00a0(who applied the AED pads to Krejci) were critical in the moments leading up to the ambulance’s arrival. At the hospital, doctors found his pulse restored and diagnosed Krejci\u00a0with an abnormal heart rhythm, providing him with a pacemaker to treat it.<\/p>\n

School nurses are often unsung heroes of their institutions, but Haas and Young are justifiably being recognized for their heroism. For nurses throughout the Baylor family, reacting in moments like these is\u00a0simply what they\u2019ve been trained to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod put me in the right place at the right time,\u201d Haas says. \u201cMy years of experience just kicked in. With God\u2019s help, I was there and the AED was so close.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sic \u2019em, Jessica and Annie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This holiday season, two Dallas-area families are celebrating stories that have a happy ending thanks to the life-saving actions of two school nurses — each of whom graduated from Baylor\u2019s Louise Herrington School of Nursing. In two separate incidents, Jessica Haas, BSN \u201997, the school nurse at Wallace Elementary in Richardson, and Annie Young, BSN […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-extraordinary-stories","category-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}