Child Care First Aid (Red Cross)

Comprehensive two-day course offering lifesaving first aid skills, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills, and injury prevention skills and knowledge, with a focus on childhood injuries and illnesses. Includes the latest first aid and CPR guidelines and meets legislation requirements for provincial/territorial early childhood education and day care worker safety requirements*.

Instructor

First Aid Instructor

Completion

• Successfully demonstrate skills and critical steps
• Min. 75% mark for written knowledge evaluation
• Attend and participate in 100% of the course

Certification

3-year certification in Standard Child Care First Aid

Recertification

8 hours in-class*

*Check local legislation to determine certification level, maintenance, and recertification requirements. www.redcross.ca/firstaidlegislation

Course Content

• The Red Cross
• Responding to Emergencies
• The EMS system
• Check, Call, Care
• Airway emergencies
• Breathing and Circulation emergencies – child and baby
• First aid for respiratory and cardiac arrest – child and baby
• Wound care
• Head, Neck and spinal injuries
• Bone, Muscle and Joint injuries
• Sudden Medical Emergencies
• Environmental Illnesses
• Poisons
• Childhood Illnesses
• Caring for Children

Duration: Minimum 16 hours in-class

13 January 2024 - 14 January 2024
8:30 am - 4:30 pm
$140.00