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The Standard First Aid Course provides you with knowledge and skills necessary to give care in an emergency, to help sustain life and minimize the consequences of injury or sudden illness until advanced medical care arrives.

Participants will be trained to react accordingly in various emergency situations, while maintaining self-confidence, composure and assurance to others. 

 In this course you will learn to:

• Recognize an emergency situation
• Identify how to respond correctly to an emergency
• Identify the purpose of Good Samaritan Laws
• Identify the difference between consent and implied consent
• Identify standard precautions to reduce the risk of disease transmission during and after giving care
• Identify how to check the scene for safety
• Identify how to check an injured person for consciousness
• Identify when and how to move an injured person from a dangerous scene
• Identify when to call and how to interact with the emergency medical services (EMS) system
• Identify how to prioritize care for life-threatening injuries or sudden illnesses
• Identify how to check a conscious person for life-threatening and non-life-threatening conditions
• Identify how to check an unconscious person
• Recognize the signals and how to care for shock.
• Recognize and care for a victim of sudden illness
• Recognize and care for soft tissue injuries, including controlling bleeding
• Recognize and care for different types of burns
• Recognize and care for injuries to the muscles, bones and joints
• Identify how to splint a bone or joint injury
• Recognize and care for injuries to the head, neck and back
• Recognize and care for a victim of a heat-related emergency
• Recognize and care for a victim of a cold-related emergency
• Demonstrate how to control external bleeding
• Demonstrate how to immobilize muscle, bone and joint injures.

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"Your course was much more exciting than than a typical emergency preparedness class!"

~Kathleen Hunt, College Professor