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Standard First Aid with CPR
Class Format: Adult CPR and First Aid
Optional formats:
Adult CPR & AED
Adult, Child, and Infant CPR
Adult, Child, and Infant CPR & AED
Adult CPR & AED with First Aid
Adult, Child, and Infant CPR with First Aid
Adult, Child, and Infant CPR & AED with First Aid
Length:
6 hours for Adult CPR; 7 hours for Adult, Child, Infant CPR; or 7½ for Adult, Child, Infant CPR & AED
Description:
This class will provide the lay responder with the knowledge and skills necessary in an emergency to help sustain life and to minimize pain and the consequences of injury or sudden illness until professional medical help arrives.
Audience:
For those who have a duty to respond to a first aid or cardiac emergency because of job responsibilities or regulatory requirements.
Certification Card:
CPR is valid for 1 year; First Aid is valid for 3 years.
Certification cards are awarded the same day the class is completed.
Written Exam/Skills Test
Written Exam and Skills Test
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Course topics: Describe how to recognize and respond to an emergency. • Describe the purpose of the Good Samaritan Laws.
• Describe the difference between consent and implied consent. • Describe the three emergency action steps.
• Identify when and how to call 9-1-1 or the local emergency number. • Explain when and how to move a person from a dangerous scene.
• Identify how to minimize the risk of disease transmission when giving care. • Demonstrate how to minimize the risk of disease transmission when giving care.
• Demonstrate how to check an unconscious person for life-threatening and nonlife-threatening conditions.
• Demonstrate how to check a conscious person for life-threatening and nonlife-threatening conditions.
• Identify the signals of shock and describe how to minimize its effects. • Describe how to prioritize care for injuries and sudden illnesses.
• Identify the signals of various soft tissue and musculoskeletal injuries.
• Identify the signs and symptoms of sudden illness, including stroke, diabetic emergency, poisoning and allergic reactions, and describe how to care for them.
• Identify the signs and symptoms of heat- and cold-related emergencies and describe how to care for them.
• Demonstrate how to control bleeding. • Identify the signals of head, neck and back injuries and explain how to care for them.
• Demonstrate how to care for a muscle, bone or joint injury. • Recognize the signals of a breathing emergency.
• Demonstrate how to care for a person who is choking. • Demonstrate how to recognize and care for a person who is not breathing.
• Recognize the signals of a cardiac emergency. • Identify the links in the Cardiac Chain of Survival.
• Describe how to care for a heart attack. • Demonstrate how to give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
• Identify prevention strategies to decrease the risk of breathing emergencies. • Explain the role of CPR in cardiac arrest.
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CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer
Length: 8 hours
Description:
To teach those with a duty to act (professional rescuers) the skills needed to respond appropriately to breathing and cardiac emergencies. This includes the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) to care for a victim of cardiac arrest.
Audience:
For healthcare providers such as EMS personnel, physician assistants, doctors, dentists, nurses, respiratory therapists, dental hygienists, nursing students, or anyone that is interested in learning one and two person with defibrillator skills.
Certification Card:
CPR is valid for 2 years, certification cards are awarded the same day the class is completed.
Written Exam/Skills Test
Written Exam and Skills Test
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Course topics :Identify the responsibilities and characteristics of a professional rescuer. • Understand legal considerations that affect a professional rescuer.
List the series of events that occur when the emergency medical services (EMS) system is activated.
Recognize and provide appropriate care for breathing emergencies, including cardiac arrest, and other life-threatening injuries and illnesses.
Demonstrate how to properly remove disposable gloves. • Demonstrate how to perform an initial assessment.
Demonstrate how to perform rescue breathing (adult, child and infant). • Demonstrate how to use a BVM with two rescuers.
Demonstrate how to care for an obstructed airway (adult, child and infant). • Describe when and how to use an AED.
Demonstrate how to give CPR (adult, child and infant). • Demonstrate how to give two-rescuer CPR (adult, child and infant).
Demonstrate how to use an AED in cardiac arrest (adult and child). • Demonstrate how to use an AED when CPR is in progress (adult and child).
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Epinephrine Auto-injector Module
Length: 2 hours
Description:
To teach lay responders the skills and knowledge necessary to recognize and provide care to a person experiencing a breathing emergency until advanced medical personnel arrives and takes over.
This module includes the demonstration of an epinephrine auto-injector.
Audience:
For those who have a duty to respond to a first aid or cardiac emergency because of job responsibilities or regulatory requirements.
Certification Card:
Valid for 1 year, certification cards are awarded the same day the class is completed.
Written Exam/Skills Test
Written Exam and Skills Test
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Course topics: Identify the signals of anaphylaxis. • Describe the care given to a person experiencing anaphylactic shock.
• Describe the appropriate assessment and documentation of the person’s response to an epinephrine auto-injection.
• Describe how to report the event of an allergic reaction and your care to emergency medical services (EMS) personnel.
• Demonstrate appropriate handling, use and disposal of an epinephrine auto-injector. • Describe appropriate documentation.
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Administering Emergency Oxygen
Length: 2 hours
Description:
To give participants the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care to a victim of a breathing emergency using breathing devices, including resuscitation masks, bag-valve-mask resuscitators (BVMs) and emergency oxygen.
Audience:
For those who have a duty to respond to a first aid or cardiac emergency because of job responsibilities or regulatory requirements.
Certification Card:
Valid for 1 year, certification cards are awarded the same day the class is completed.
Written Exam/Skills Test
Written Exam and Skills Test
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Course topics: Describe the importance of administering emergency oxygen. • List the steps required to administer emergency oxygen.
Identify different oxygen delivery devices and when to use them. • List the precautions to take when using emergency oxygen.
Demonstrate how to properly remove disposable gloves. • Demonstrate how to use a resuscitation mask and BVM to ventilate a nonbreathing victim.
Demonstrate how to prepare the oxygen equipment and administer emergency oxygen to a breathing or a nonbreathing victim.
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Bloodborne Pathogens Training: Preventing Disease Transmission
Length:
2 hours
Description:
This class will train and provide individuals with an understanding of the intent of the bloodborne pathogens regulation issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), how Bloodborne pathogens are spread, and the prevention of pathogen spread.
Audience:
For those who have a duty to respond to a first aid or cardiac emergency because of job responsibilities or regulatory requirements.
Certification Card:
Valid for 1 year, certification cards are awarded the same day the class is completed.
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Course topics: Describe how infections occur.
Identify how bloodborne pathogens are spread.
Identify tasks that have a potential for exposure to infectious materials.
Recognize the importance of handwashing and personal hygiene in reducing the risk of disease transmission.
Recognize the importance of personal protective equipment and understand the types of equipment available for use.
Identify engineering and work practice controls.
Identify biohazard signs and labels.
Describe the emergency procedures for exposure incidents involving potentially infectious materials.
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Babysitter’s Training
Length: 8 hours
Description :
To provide youth who are planning to babysit with the knowledge and skills necessary to safely and responsibly give care for children and infants. This training will help participants to develop leadership skills; learn how to develop a babysitting business, keep themselves and others safe and help children behave; and learn about basic child care and basic first aid.
Audience:
Recommended for ages 11–15 years.
Certification Card :
Certification cards are awarded the same day the class is completed.
Written Exam/Skills Test
Written Exam and Skills Test
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Course topics:Define leadership and identify role modeling, respect, communication, motivation, taking action and decision making as important leadership skills. • Identify ways to respect diversity among the children they babysit. • Apply the FIND decision-making model to common babysitting situations.
Use safe and appropriate techniques for finding babysitting jobs. • List good business practices and professional work behaviors for babysitting.
Identify safety-related problems and know how to prevent, recognize and fix them to create a safer environment in and around the home.
Identify which behaviors to expect from children based on their ages and developmental stages. • Describe the importance of play for children’s growth and development. • List and apply appropriate techniques to prevent misbehavior and help children engage in desired behaviors. • List at least three types of basic child care. • Recognize an emergency. • Identify and apply the emergency action steps: CHECK—CALL—CARE.
Explain the differences between life-threatening and nonlife-threatening emergencies. • Identify who to call and when to call in different emergency situations.
Describe how to check a conscious child or infant. • Explain how to care for bleeding and burns.
Demonstrate the proper way to wash their hands. • Demonstrate how to properly remove disposable gloves.
Demonstrate how to pick up and hold an infant and toddler. • Demonstrate how to bottle-feed an infant.
Demonstrate how to spoon-feed an infant or toddler. * Demonstrate how to diaper an infant or toddler.
Demonstrate how to help a conscious child or infant who is choking. * Demonstrate how to check an unconscious child or infant.
Demonstrate how to give care to an unconscious child or infant who is not breathing. • Demonstrate the steps to control external bleeding.
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Dog First Aid
Length: 8 hours
Description:
The goals of the Dog First Aid presentation are to teach participants how to be prepared for
emergencies that involve a dog and how to protect themselves and the animal from further harm,
injury or suffering during emergencies by teaching prompt, effective first aid actions and care.
Audience:
Animal regulation personnel and volunteers, pet groomers, pet owners, pet rescue organizations, pet sitters, pet store owners and employees.
Certification Card:
Certification cards are awarded the same day the class is completed.
Written Exam/Skills Test
Skills Test
additional info...
Course topics:Name the items that belong in a pet first aid kit.
Name the appropriate pet supplies that should be included in an emergency supplies kit.
Explain what should be considered when making a plan for a dog in the event of a disaster that requires evacuation.
Understand the importance of knowing the normal physical condition, behaviors and habits of their dogs.
Identify a normal heart and pulse rate, breathing rate and body temperature for dogs.
Describe how to safely approach an ill or injured dog.
Demonstrate how to safely muzzle a dog.
Explain how to determine if a dog is experiencing a life-threatening emergency by checking airway, breathing and circulation (ABCs).
Describe how to care for a dog that is having a breathing emergency.
Describe how to perform CPR on a dog.
Describe how to care for shock for a dog.
Describe how to provide basic wound care and control bleeding for a dog.
Describe how to provide care to a dog with a muscle, bone or joint injury.
Describe how to care for a dog involved in a car accident.
Describe how to care for a dog with a sudden illness.
Describe how to care for a dog suffering from a cold- or heat-related emergency.
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