I am a nursing student, just finished my first semester and this is something that happened to me today while driving.
I rode with the new girl at my office while she went to pick up something at lunch and we saw a car going the opposite direction start to drift with the driver slumped over his steering wheel....it came to a stop.... We flipped a u-turn and stopped behind him, hazards on....I approached his car and he was slouched over an open cell phone, unresponsive, eyes closed. Took a while of knocking - I was worried he'd had a heart attack or a stroke. I was terrified for a minute that I was going to have to use my somewhat newly acquired CPR skills. Another lady stopped and I told her to call the paramedics and I just kept on knocking. Never thought to try his door. He finally started to alertness, looked bewildered, then embarassed.... Looked like a business man burning the candle at both ends. He stated he was fine and had no chest pain or shortness of breath, that he just fell asleep - felt weird and empowering to be the person to know at least some of what to ask him. He would not pull off the road and let me call for someone to come get him and he did end up going on his merry way, very embarassed. I really hope he is okay and wish he'd waited a bit longer for the EMTs to arrive. Thank goodness his foot drifted to his brake and not his gas pedal.
So critique me - what else could I/should I have done? I feel like this is a great learning opportunity if nothing else....