Kankakee Area Career Center - Nick Gliwa and Hope Mitton - Welcome Back to KACC!

- Current conditions as of 18 Oct 04:56 am CDT
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  Sunday
  Rain, mainly before 1pm. High near 58. Breezy, with a northwest wind around 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
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Nick Gliwa and Hope Mitton - Welcome Back to KACC!

Not as students, but as Guest Instructors

Hope Mitton and Nick Gliwa

Nick Gliwa a 2019 student from KACC's Fire-Rescue-EMR program and graduate of Grant Park High School teamed up with Hope Mitton, former KACC Certified Nurse Assistant/Medical Terminology student from Donovan High School class of 2020 to instruct Fire-Rescue-ERM students on how to treat hemorrhages.

Nick is a 9-1-1 dispatcher for Lake County, Indiana, and former member of the Grant Park Fire Protection District. He is an American Heart Association BLS/ CPR/AED and First Aid instructor.

Picture of Stop the Bleed Training

Great Trainng

Nick and Hope taught students how to pack wounds with gauze and hemostatic agents, apply pressure dressings, and use tourniquets on artificial arms and legs as imitation blood was flowing out of the wounds.

Hope acting as victim for Stop the Bleed Training.

Hope and Nick so willing to ruin their clothing so our students learn properly.

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