Vivain Forces 400 Students to Work for Free?

Nursing students volunteer as paramedic assistants for YOG
By Sharon See | Posted: 15 April 2010 2048 hrs
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SINGAPORE: Some 400 nursing students are chipping in for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in Singapore by volunteering as paramedic assistants.

It may seem easy but it takes more than just steady hands to transfer an injured person onto a stretcher.

Nursing students from Nanyang Polytechnic are learning how to deal with emergencies outside the hospital setting under the guidance of paramedics from the Singapore Armed Forces.

Students from Ngee Ann Polytechnic and ITE College East will undergo similar training in May and June.

During the three-day training, they will also learn how to treat sports injuries.

Tan Mei Fen, a third-year nursing student, said: "Even though I can't participate as an athlete, I can contribute by being a paramedic assistant and learn a lot more, which is not learnt during our nursing course."

These include different types of bandaging, how to use splints and how to load the patient up to the ambulance and so on.

Chan Chee Beng, deputy manager of clinical development at the School of Health Sciences (Nursing), NYP, said: "Our emphasis is more on hospital setting. Whereas this training actually helps them to even go down to the ground to assist casualties or victims that require hospitalisation to be sent from the site of injury to the hospitals."

The students are part of the 20,000 YOG volunteers who will be mobilised for the Games in August.

- CNA/jy

Nursing Student : Can don't volunteer or not?

YOG Organiser : Cannot. Your record already minus points since you ask that question. Ask somemore, minus more points.

Nursing Student : OK I volunteer. Please don't minus my points.

YOG Organiser : OK but next time don't just such stupid question. Ask you to volunteer, you just do it, understand?

Nursing Student : OK understood.

This is a shame. Vivian having to resort to using free labor in the form of students who are tired after studying and yet have to volunteer for an event no one cares about.

Nothing new. It happens every NDP or something like that.

volunteer sounds nicer than compulsory mah.

Notice they don't use conscript even for NS ?

Brightkid said:

Notice they don't use conscript even for NS ?

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National Service is (legalised) slavery under Constitition Part IV Article 10:

(1) No person shall be held in slavery.

(2) All forms of forced labour are prohibited, but Parliament may by law provide for compulsory service for national purposes.

myfoot123 said:

A total waste of mobilising Singapore precious human resources. Students are supposed to be studying and not help Vivian earn his credibility. Can't they just use RC dogs which they were trained for time like this.

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They siam like hell. Suggest students and NSmen as volunteers. Got free tickets go there eat free buffets? Yes, they want.

Ramseth said:

They siam like hell. Suggest students and NSmen as volunteers. Got free tickets go there eat free buffets? Yes, they want.

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And the time off from class and camp.

What is YOG? Simi youth olympics games some school age ginas running around? Never hear before. Waste time, waste money, dun come and ka chiao me.

someone should ask him if he would work for freee?

wrcboi said:

someone should ask him if he would work for freee?

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He's a talent. He should be paid top pay to work. Otherwise, no talent would work. Talent can get many people to work free, see?

You are assuming that RC doggies can be trained to volunteer for things like this.

The only one thing they no need to be trained is to wait wag and stick their tongues out whenever their masters appears.

myfoot123 said:

A total waste of mobilising Singapore precious human resources. Students are supposed to be studying and not help Vivian earn his credibility. Can't they just use RC dogs which they were trained for time like this.

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Whatever, I believe that YOG will pass by as a non-event to most Singaporeans, except for those arrowed to volunteer. Oh yes, the media will be full of it, but nobody really wants to read or watch. And oh yes, our resident PRC community will be excited and entertained as PRC is most likely to top the medal tally.

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Because 400 of you chose Nursing you must do compulsory volunteering .

If not I give the order , you cannot graduate and get a job in all hospice care.

And at the same time I as Vivain Bala will open the floodgates
for all foreigners who are more deserving than any of you Singaporeans .
I will let them all in and depress your wages .