Description
Advanced CPR Training provides CPR and First Aid classes to babysitters, nannies, daycare center workers, parents and anyone taking care of children or infants. Our First Aid CPR AED class will teach child care providers to respond to and manage illnesses and injuries in a child or infant in the first few minutes until professional help arrives.
ARE YOU RUNNING A DAYCARE CENTER, PLANNING TO WORK AS A BABYSITTER OR NANNY, ANTICIPATING YOUR FIRST CHILD OR GRANDCHILD, WORK AROUND CHILDREN?
What can I learn from this class?
- 1-Rescuer CPR and AED
- 2-Rescuer CPR and AED
- CPR Rescue breathing
- Relief of choking for child and infant victims
- First aid basics
- Medical emergencies
- Injury emergencies
- Environmental emergencies
- Preventing illness and injury
- Optional modules in adult CPR AED and Asthma Care Training for Child Care Providers are also available.
Who else will benefit from this course? Anybody who works as a babysitter, nanny or daycare employee, teachers, camp counselors, coaches for children’s sports organizations, other guardians, those applying for adoption and those who want to learn CPR, how to operate an AED, and Pediatric First Aid?
How long is this class? The CPR Class with First Aid takes 4-4.5 hours depending on the number of students in the class. The CPR class alone takes about 2 hours.
After successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- List the priorities, roles, and responsibilities of a rescuer providing first aid to a child or infant
- Describe the 4 key steps in first aid for children and infants: prevent, protect, assess, and act
- Remove protective gloves (skill student will demonstrate)
- Find the problem (skill student will demonstrate)
- Describe the assessment and first aid actions for the following life-threatening conditions: difficulty breathing, choking, severe bleeding, and shock
- Control bleeding and bandaging (skills student will demonstrate)
- Use an epinephrine pen (skill student will demonstrate)
- Recognize elements of common injuries
- Recognize elements of common illnesses
- Describe how to find information on preventing illness and injury
- Recognize the legal questions that apply to pediatric first aid rescuers
- Describe how high-quality CPR improves survival
- Explain the concepts of the Chain of Survival
- Recognize when someone needs CPR
- Perform high-quality CPR for an adult*
- Describe how to perform CPR with help from others
- Give effective breaths by using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups
- Demonstrate how to use an AED on an adult*
- Perform high-quality CPR for a child
- Demonstrate how to use an AED for a child
- Perform high-quality CPR on an infant
- Describe when and how to help a choking adult or child
- Demonstrate how to help a choking infant
*Optional modules
Card Type: Heartsaver® Pediatric First Aid CPR AED Course Completion Card
CME/CE Credit: Yes
