Adult, Infant & Child CPR/First Aid/AED Learning Objectives

Recognize an emergency
List the three general steps in the emergency plan.
Call EMS and give necessary information.
Demonstrate how to check a conscious or an unconscious victim
Recognize an injury or sudden illness
Demonstrate how to control bleeding
Demonstrate how to care for muscle, bone, and joint injuries.
List the general care steps for burns.
Identify how to reduce the risk of injury to adults, infants & children.
Identify how to reduce the risk of injury of cardiovascular disease.
Recognize the signs and symptoms of a heart attack and provide care to reduce the chance of cardiac arrest.
Recognize the signs and symptoms of a breathing emergency.
Learn how to care for an adult, infant or child who stops breathing.
Learn how to care for an adult, infant or child who is choking.
Learn how to give CPR to an adult, infant or child whose heart has stopped beating.


CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer

Learn the role of the professional rescuer in the EMS system.
Learn the role of the professional rescuer in providing emergency care
Learn how to recognize and respond to respiratory and cardiac emergencies in infants, children and adults.
Recognize the risk factors that contribute to cardiovascular disease.
Perform specialized skills and techniques used by professional rescuers.


Adult CPR/AED

Identify how to reduce the risk of heart attack.
Recognize the signals of a heart attack and provide care to reduce the chance of cardiac arrest.
Learn how to care for an adult who stops breathing.
Learn how to care for an adult who is choking.
Learn how to give CPR to an adult whose heart has stopped beating.
Identify how to use your community's emergency medical services (EMS) system effectively.


First Aid Basics

Recognize and emergency
List the three general steps in the emergency plan.
Call EMS and give necessary information.
Demonstrate how to check a conscious or an unconscious victim.
Recognize an injury or sudden illness.
Demonstrate how to control bleeding.
Demonstrate how to care for muscle, bone and joint injuries.
Describe how to care for sudden illnesses.
List the general care steps for burns.


Infant & Child CPR/First Aid

Recognize an emergency
List the three general steps in the emergency plan.
Call EMS and give necessary information.
Demonstrate how to check a conscious or an unconscious victim.
Recognize and injury or sudden illness.
Demonstrate how to control bleeding.
Demonstrate how to care for muscle, bone, and joint injuries.
Describe how to care for sudden illnesses.
List the general care steps for burns.
Identify how to reduce the risk of injury to infants & children.
Recognize the signs and symptoms of a breathing or cardiac emergency.
Learn how to care for an infant or child who stops breathing.
Learn how to care for an infant or child who is choking.
Learn how to give CPR to an infant or child whose heart has stopped beating.


Instructor Course FA/CPR/AED

Use program materials effectively.
Plan and conduct effective courses.
Evaluate progress of participants for certification.
Prepare and submit accurate records and reports.
Describe factors that enhance learning.
Identify instructor functions.
Describe teaching methods common to Red Cross courses.
Describe rational for evaluation in Red Cross courses.
Explain the need for accurate, timely reporting and record keeping.
Describe steps in planning to teach.
Explain the importance of representing the Red Cross effectively.


Babysitter Training Course

- Leadership
- Basic Care
- Safety and safe play
- First aid basics
- Holding and infant
- Bottle-feeding and infant
- Burping and infant
- Diapering an infant
- Checking a conscious child
- Checking an unconscious child
- Rescue breathing child/infant
- Obstructed airway, conscious child/infant
- Obstructed airway, unconscious child/infant
- Controlling bleeding
- Properly removing disposable gloves


Wilderness First Aid
-Types of delayed-help situations
-Check-call-care
-Contacting help
-Caring for the patient long term
-Patient assessment and record
-Preventing disease transmission
-Proritizing care
-Treatment of injuries: wounds, head and spinal injuries, extremity injuries, abdominal injuries, sudden illness, major bites or stings, other types of backcountry miseries.
-Carrying out the plan
-Deciding to evacuate.