AED Defibrillator locations on campus
An Automated External Defibrillator (AED) is used to treat victims of sudden cardiac arrest. Currently the survival rate for sudden cardiac conditions is very poor, typically 1% but if an AED is used promptly, the victims chances of survival can increase significantly, e.g. if an AED is used within five minutes the victim has a 50% chance of survival. (HSE Report of the Task Force on Sudden Cardiac Death 2006)
There are 13 AEDs on Campus and AEDs are also in place in Aras Shorcha Ní Ghuairim, Carna and Aras Uí Chadhain, An Cheathru Rua.
There are 13 AEDs on Campus and AEDs are also in place in Aras Shorcha Ní Ghuairim, Carna and Aras Uí Chadhain, An Cheathru Rua. Their locations are shown on the Campus Map (interactive map – search for AED) and listed below. This equipment is to be used by trained personnel only.
AED Responders
There are over 150 personnel on site trained in the use of AEDs. This includes members of staff from the Student Health Unit, School of Nursing and Midwifery and others who have completed specific AED training. Please use the attached lists of AED trained personnel for the AED(s) relevant to you.
Other Personnel
Heads of Units must ensure that adequate local arrangements are in place to ensure a prompt response to a cardiac emergency as part of their Occupational First Aid arrangements. A Local Cardiac Arrest Response Plan should be prepared.
All members of the NUI Galway Community should familiarise themselves with the locations of the AEDs and who are the trained NUI Galway personnel that should be contacted in the event of coming across someone who may need the AED. As a back-up measure a telephone is beside most AEDs, which can be used to get help or rung to get a by-stander to bring the AED to a casualty. The relevant extensions are listed below. Please print off this information to be prepared to respond in the event of a local emergency.
Locations and further information:-
| # 1 Áras na Mac Léinn (Main Foyer) | AED Responders in Area 1 (Áras na Mac Léinn) | 5100 |
| # 2 Áras Moyola (Main Foyer) |
AED Responders in Area 2 (Áras Moyola) | 5200 |
| # 3 James Hardiman Library (Main Foyer) | AED Responders in Area 3 (James Hardiman Library) | 5340 |
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# 4 Engineering Building – North Campus (Riverside Reception Ground Floor) |
AED Responders in Area 4 (Engineering Building – North Campus) | tbc |
| # 5 Sports Pavilion Dangan (Reception Area) | AED Responders in Area 5 (Sports Pavilion Dangan) | 2944 |
| # 6 NCBES (Orbsen Building, 1st Floor, Adjacent to Reception) | 5900 | |
| #7 CSI (Entrance Level, Adjacent to Main Restaurant) | AED Responders in Area 7 (CSI) | 5500 |
| # 8 DERI (1st Floor Meeting Room Corridor) | AED Responders in Area 8 (DERI) | tbc |
| # 9 Sports Complex Kingfisher (at Main Reception) | AED Responders in Area 9 | 540300 |
| # 10 Sports Complex Kingfisher (First Aid Room) | AED Responders in Area 9 | 540300 |
| # 11 Quadrangle (Archway) | 3543 | |
| # 14 Concourse (Bank of Ireland end, outside O’Flaherty Theatre) | AED Responders in Area 14 Concourse | 2800 |
| # 15 Cairnes Building (St Anthony’s side of Friar’s) | AED Responders in Area 15 Cairnes Building | tbc |
Staff are reminded that they need to be aware of what to do in the event of any university first aid situations or emergencies:-
* Do you know the names and contact details of the nearest first aiders?
See list of NUI Galway Occupational First Aiders(all trained in Cardio
Pulmonary Resuscitation).
* Do you know the names and contact details of the nearest AED Responders
(See lists above).
* Do you know how to make an 999/112 emergency phone call –
See Emergency Information.
* A 999/112 call requesting a “cardiac ambulance” should be made where you come across any unconscious casualty.
The University’s AED Policy was finalised in 2010.
Mind Body & Soul
Mind, Body & Soul is a comprehensive student lifestyle programme aimed to help you be what you want to be, but one thing’s for sure it’s not done in a traditional way.
The programme is influenced by western pragmatism and Eastern Wisdom, inspired by an interesting blend of the esoteric and the usual. So if you are the reflective type or an out and our rationalist, the Mind, Body & Soul programme is for you.
Whatever you want to do – get fitter, live better, feel great, be more effective, or just be more chilled out, get involved in the Mind, Body & Soul Programme!
Healthy Living Week 2012
We will be giving out SU Healthy Living Bags and Recipe books all week so look out for our volunteers in the pink T-shirts. Make your Healthy Living Week a no chip week! We encourage you not to eat chips for just one week. The Sports Unit and the Kingfisher will be offering their usual services all week and will also have some random raffles, boxing and mountain biking events. If you have any queries about Healthy Living Week or want to help out contact the SU Welfare Officer Dami on su.welfare@nuigalway.ie
Tuesday 30th October
- 11am – 5pm Visit our Stand in Smokeys for freebies and information
- 4pm- 6.30pm Soccer Blitz in Corrib Village Cages with a grand prize of €250.
- Launch of Students’ Union Healthy Recipe Book.
- Trick or Treat. Have a treat on us, look out for our volunteers. Or drop into the Students’ Union
- Feeling fruity days, Free fruit at different Students’ Union outlets and around campus
- BodyWise Size doesn’t matter campaign
- Have a Sneeze, Have a Tissue, Cold and Flu campaign
Wednesday 31st October
- 12pm-4pm Visit our Stand in Smokeys for Condom Wednesday and the launch of Students’ Union Finance Guide: Food and finance. Budget well, eat well.
- 12pm-4pm Visit our Stand in Áras Moyola.
- Trick or Treat. Have a treat on us, look out for our volunteers. Or drop into the Students Union
- Feeling fruity days, Free fruit at different Students’ Union outlets and around campus
- 4pm-6pm The Corrib Village Astro Turf pitches are open for FREE
- Usual services offered by Sports Unit and Kingfisher. Random raffles taking place, boxing and mountain biking events
Thursday 1st MOvember
- 11am-2pm Free health checks in Áras na Mac Léinn contact cindy.dring@nuigalway.ie for more information.
- 12pm-5pm Visit our Stand in Smokeys for the Students’ Union and Health Connect food and the body campaign – Sign the petition! Enter the food shopping competition to win a voucher for free shopping.
- 10am Launch of Movember in Smokeys and in the evening in the College bar. It’s all about the MO. It’s all for charity. Join our team HERE.
- 4pm – 6pm Corrib Village Astro Turf pitches are open for FREE.
- Feeling fruity days, Free fruit at different Students’ Union outlets and around campus
- Trick or Treat. Have a treat on us, look out for our volunteers. Or drop into the Students’ Union
- 7pm Students’ Union Table Quiz with lots of Freebies in the College Bar.
- Alcohol information, E-PUB info.
THE FIGHT AGAINST FEES: Five reasons to oppose College fees
1. Fees won’t cut costs during the recession
A fully funded education system will increase Ireland’s attractiveness on a global market, more graduates meaning more capable and skilled workers. This has and will drive inward investment into Ireland and create jobs.
It also increases the likelihood that Ireland can create its own native industry building a future which will see us become financially stable for years to come.
2. Fees will increase government debt and emigration
1,000 people emigrate from Ireland every week. Most of these are young, skilled and capable. Many of whom could not afford college or could not afford postgraduate courses due to the recent cut in the postgraduate grant. This means that young Irish people who would be paying billions of euros back in taxes to the Irish state are now elsewhere and are of no financial reward to the government. The process of Ireland’s skilled young workers is known as an economic ‘brain-drain’.
It should also be noted that graduates will, on average, get better jobs, generate more economic activity and pay on average 70% more tax over their working lives than non-graduates and therefore, repay the cost of their education and more.
While young people face social welfare as a prospect if they cannot pay college fees, they become a cost to the state rather than improving the state and their own skills by becoming a graduate.
3. Fees will be cheaper for the rich and dearer for the poor
Ruairi Quinn, the Minster for Education has stated that the student contribution fee could go as high as €3,000 by 2015. If you are from a low income or low income family, €3,000 can is a huge amount of money, especially if you have brothers and sisters wanting to go to college also. The current system denies those from low incomes a chance having opportunity in Ireland at this moment but yet, those from higher incomes who can afford fees remain to have no financial barrier yet they are most likely to have opportunity anyways.
It should be noted, that in any family or income, with increasing taxes, wage cuts and widespread redundancy is at risk of struggling to pay college fees at anytime should their income suddenly change, if it hasn’t already.
4. Fees will restrict access to third-level education
The government has signalled its intention to increase third-level participation rates to 72% by the year 2020, in order to create a knowledge economy workforce that can dig us out of recession. Forcing €32,000 of debt for a science or technology degree on potential students is no way to encourage participation, but instead is a recipe for continued emigration.
Secondary school students will be encouraged to not enter third-level education as they will face massive debts or graduate taxes. Families from lower-income backgrounds will be especially discouraged from taking on such debts.
5. Third-level education is already underfunded
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has found that in 2005 Ireland was spending 1.2% of our national income on third-level education, a decrease from 1.5% in the year 2000. They also found that our euro-for-euro spending was well below the international average. As for the pitiful Student Grant, which is aimed at helping ordinary families send their children to college, it doesn’t even cover the cost of rent in the main university towns.
The government is attempting to create a world-class third-level education system without funding it properly. Instead, it wants 18 year old Leaving Cert students to take on the funding issue and spend years repaying loans and debts in a turbulent job market.
HOW YOU CAN HELP US. . .
PARENTS
Your support is vital. You are the voters and the taxpayers, and the politicians are more likely to listen to you than students. Email or send letters to your local elected representatives, whether TD, Senator or Councillor and express your opposition to college fees. Let them know they won’t be getting your vote if they are in favour of fees.
FIRST YEARS
Watch out for our anti-fees campaigns on campus, and get involved in the protest marches we’ll be organising during the next few weeks. We’ll also be leafleting the city centre in the run-up to the Cabinet meeting on fees. Like your parents, you can email or send letters to your local elected representatives expressing your opposition to fees. Let them know they won’t be getting your vote if they are in favour of fees.
Contact the Vice President/Education Officer for more info