Before the 3 years are up, it’s time to recertify.

Learn first aid and CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) skills, which include (but aren’t limited to):

• The EMS system
• Airway emergencies
• Breathing and Circulation emergencies
• First aid for respiratory and cardiac arrest
• Wound care
• Head and spine injuries
• Bone, muscle and joint injuries
• Sudden Medical Emergencies
• Environmental Emergencies
• Poisons

Before the 1 year is up, it’s time to recertify.

• How to perform CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) in a team environment
• Steps for rapid assessment
• Basic Life Support (BLS) skills
• How to perform rapid defibrillation, which includes the use of an
• Automated External Defibrillator (AED)

It also gives you the following skills:

• Glove removal
• Primary Assessment
• CPR
• Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
• Airway Obstruction
• Assisted Ventilation
• Basic Life Support special considerations

Before the 3 years are up, it’s time to recertify.

Learn CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) skills that help you recognize and respond to cardiovascular emergencies and
choking.

You also learn how to use an automated external defibrillator (AED).

There are 2 levels of CPR, A and C.

CPR A
Some of the skills you learn when you take a CPR A course:

• Responding to Emergencies
• Recovery position
• Adult choking
• Medication assistance
• Angina and heart attack recognition
• Stroke recognition
• Adult CPR and AED
• Deadly bleeding response

CPR C
You learn all of the skills in a CPR A course, as well as:

• Child and baby choking
• Child and baby CPR and AED

Before the 3 years are up, it’s time to recertify.

Learn some of the standard first aid and CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) skills such as (but not limited to):

• Response preparation
• Minor wound care
• Airway, breathing and circulation emergencies
• CPR with AED
• Bone, muscle and joint injuries
• Primary and secondary survey (e.g. checking for a pulse)
• Secondary care that’s not life-threatening (e.g. allergies)
• Stroke care

Before the 3 years are up, it’s time to recertify.

Learn a basic overview of first aid and CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) skills such as (but not limited to):

• Response preparation
• Minor wound care\
• WorkSafe BC and OHS paperwork
• Spinal management
• Head trauma
• Airway, breathing and circulation emergencies
• CPR with AED
• Primary and secondary survey (e.g. checking for a pulse)
• Secondary care that’s not life-threatening (e.g. allergies)
• Stroke care

This course teaches youths:

• How to manage difficult behaviours
• How to be a leader
• Professional conduct as a babysitter

The First Aid they learn includes:

• Check, Call, Care (includes phoning EMS/911)
• Glove removal
• Recovery position
• Conscious choking (adult/child/baby/alone)
• CPR (baby/child)
• Illness
• Asthma (includes use of inhaler and spacer)
• Anaphylaxis (includes use of EpiPen)
• Poisoning
• Insect stings
• Wound care (i.e. minor cuts and scrapes, splinters, nosebleeds, bumps and bruises, life-threatening bleeding, burns)
• Head, neck and back injuries
• Broken bones
• Seizures

Before the 3 years are up, it’s time to recertify.

This course teaches you how to:

• Identify when to administer supplemental oxygen
• Administer supplemental oxygen
• Properly handle and assemble equipment

It also teaches you the following skills:

• Pulse oximetry
• Supplemental oxygen
• Oxygen cylinders
• Oxygen regulators
• Oxygen delivery devices
• Administering oxygen

You can combine this course with the Basic Life Support course for additional certification.

Before the 3 years are up, it’s time to recertify.

This course teaches you how to:

• Create a patent airway and how to maintain it
• Measure and insert airway adjuncts

It also gives you the following skills:

• Opening the mouth
• Cross finger technique
• Tongue-jaw lift
• Oropharyngeal (OPA) airways
• Nasopharyngeal (NPA) airways
• Supraglottic airways
• Suction

You can combine this course with the Basic Life Support course for additional certification.