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Identify a Champion
Perhaps your committee will meet
and decide that you wish to implement an AED program. Your company agrees
with your recommendation and five weeks later the AEDs are ordered and
placed and everyone is trained. More often you are likely to meet
resistance along the way. Resistance occurs because AEDs are not well
understood by the average person. Perhaps the resistance will come
because of money, or because people don’t want to try to revive someone
who is suffering a cardiac emergency, or because the committee didn’t
select the AED someone’s cousin sells. Or any of a thousand other things.
One person will usually evolve as a
champion of the cause. This can be a parent who has lost a child, an
employee with a heart condition, a volunteer fire fighter or EMT who knows
first-hand the value of AEDs or someone who is just simply passionate
about the idea. This same person might not be the best at putting
together a budget for AEDs or at evaluating the pros and cons of AEDs, or
even at developing an emergency response plan. But he or she is
passionate about the cause itself. He is the one that knows that ‘No’
really means ‘Yes’. She is the one to send forth the convince others that
they really should get on board and he is the one who keeps on pushing
when the odds seem to be stacked against the AED program ever happening.
You may not know who will fill this role
before starting and the champion may not be the chairperson of the
committee but when all is said and done, this person is ultimately
responsible for the AED program that is implemented.
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