Standard Child Care First Aid & CPR

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

Includes any other content required by specific legislation

www.redcross.ca/firstaidlegislation

Participant Materials            

• Child Care First Aid (print and/or eBook)
• Comprehensive Guide to First Aid & CPR (eBook)
• Standard Child Care First Aid certificate (digital certificate issued upon successful completion)

Printable version – Standard Child Care First Aid

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