How To Teach First Aid

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How To Teach First Aid CPR AED Emergency
O2 Blood-Borne Pathogens
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2 How to teach the NAUI 1st Aid

• Teaching 1st Aid/CPR/AED/O2 Administration and/
  Blood Borne Pathogens
• Proven way to add to your bottom line by giving
  you courses to teach off season
• Provide a valuable service to community

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3 What well cover

• Who may teach
• Ratios
• Preparation
• Teaching Aids
• Instructor Materials
• Student Materials
• Scheduling
• Academic Sessions
• Practical Sessions
• Victim handling
• Exams Post Course Review

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4 What is on/in Instructor Guide

• Overview of Academic Sessions
• Teaching Individual Segments
• Overview of Practical Sessions
• Exams Evaluating and documenting competence in
  skills knowledge
• Post-Course Review

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5 Performance Assessment By the end of
presentation candidates will be able to

• State who may teach
• List three teaching aids
• Explain value of post course review

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6 Who May Teach

• Any active status NAUI instructor who has
  purchased a personal copy of the NAUI First Aid
  Instructor

• NAUI Leadership members may also qualify by
  attending a NAUI First Aid instructor course with
  a NAUI Instructor Trainer or Course Director.

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7 Ratios

• Is there a ratio for teaching 1st Aid?
• No, use your own judgment.

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8 NAUI 1st Aid

• May be taught as one comprehensive course or any
  segment may be taught individually or in any
  combination
• May be taught to businesses, industry, health
  clubs, individuals, clubs, as well as to divers.
  May teach any or all segments.

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9 What do you need?

• Be ready to teach
• Must use NAUI 1st Aid Instructor Guide
• Have instructor materials
• Have student materials
• Prepare room
• Video not required but any video conforming to
  ILCOR recommendations will do

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10 What do you need for practical sessions?

• (Quantities dependant on class size and modules
  to me taught)
• Bleach wash
• Gloves
• Masks
• Bandages

• Splints
• Backboard
• Manikins
• O2 Kit
• AED Trainer

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11 Unit 1 Introduction to First Aid

• Universal precautions
• Legal considerations
• Definition of first aid

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12 NAUI First Aid Course Precautions

• Follow CDC guidelines in class
• Wash hands before and after class
• No eating, drinking, or gum chewing
• Students may request a separate manikin if (do
  not ask why)
• S/he has a cold or sore throat
• S/he has open sores around mouth or on hands
• S/he has a compromised immune system or condition
  that makes for increased susceptibility to
  infection
• S/he has chronic infection such as AIDS,
  Hepatitis B, or Hepatitis C
• S/he has tested positive for HIV antibodies

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13 Disease Transmission Risk During Training

• There has never been a documented case of anyone
  contracting a disease from using training aids
  and manikins during a first aid or CPR course.
• Precautions are still necessary.

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14 Legal Considerations

• Laws differ place to place
• Duty to Act
• Good Samaritan Laws
• Act in a careful and sensible manner
• Only provide care consistent with your training
  and skills
• Continuing to provide care until advanced medical
  help arrives and takes over
• Do not accept anything in return for your service.

Florida Good Samaritan Law 768.13 Good Samaritan
Act immunity from civil liability. (1) This act
shall be known and cited as the Good Samaritan
Act. (2)(a) Any person, including those licensed
to practice medicine, who gratuitously and in
good faith renders emergency care or treatment
either in direct response to emergency situations
related to and arising out of a public health
emergency declared pursuant to s. 381.00315, a
state of emergency which has been declared
pursuant to s. 252.36or at the scene of an
emergency outside of a hospital, doctor's office,
or other place having proper medical equipment,
without objection of the injured victim or
victims thereof, shall not be held liable for any
civil damages as a result of such care or
treatment or as a result of any act or failure to
act in providing or arranging further medical
treatment where the person acts as an ordinary
reasonably prudent person would have acted under
the same or similar circumstances.
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15 Legal Considerations continued

• Consent
• Before you help a conscious victim, you must have
  their consent
• Tell the victim your name
• Tell them you are trained in first aid
• Ask if you may treat them
• If the victim is a minor you must have parent or
  guardian consent
• Implied Consent
• Unconscious victims
• Unaccompanied minors

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16 Defining First Aid

• First aid is emergency care given before regular
  medical aid can be obtained.
• A rescue is the removal of a victim from danger
  or further harm.

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17 What is on Instructor Guide Section 1 -
Introduction

• Section One Introduction
• How to use guide
• Preparation for teaching
• Academic session overview
• Sample Academic schedule
• Exams
• Section Two Academics
• Slides and outlines

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18 What is on/in Instructor Guide cont?

• Section Three
• Instructor and student notes
• Section Four
• Outlines for Practical Sessions
• Section Five
• Exams 2 versions answer sheets and keys
• Exam guidelines
• Source matrices

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19 Academic Sessions

• 9 sections, 18 units
• Available in PowerPoint and PDF
• Guide available in software and hard copy
• Most flexible in PowerPoint
• Content sequence can be modified
• Units may be taught individually or combined

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20 Academic Sessions Section 1 Unit 1
Introduction

• Info for all segments
• Requirements for certification
• Relationship between courses
• Appropriate responses for medical emergencies
• Student warnings (bleach, lifting)
• Local laws, liability, duty

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21 Section 1 - Unit 2 Blood Borne Pathogens

• Units 1 2 together are certification for Blood
  Borne Pathogens
• Unit is part of Intro
• Students made aware of dangers
• Point not to intimidate

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22 Section 2 - Units 3 4 Victim Assessment

• Section introduces anatomy
• Provides road map and operating manual of
  body
• Rescuer and/or 1st Aid provider must ensure own
  safety first
• 1st Aid rarely enough

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23 Section 3 - Unit 5 Basic Life Support

• Intro CPR rescue breathing
• skills require practice
• Learning basics
• Overcome fear of making mistakes
• Discuss concerns i.e. infections
• Critical issues depth and frequency of
  compressions

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24 Section 3 Unit 6 Foreign Body Airway
Obstruction

• Or as we call it choking
• Clear airway necessary for both CPR and Rescue
  Breathing
• Practice overlearning
• Instructors should provide positive reinforcement

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25 Section 4 Adjunct Life Support - Units 7 8

• Emergency O2 Administration
• Dangers of handling O2
• Where required by law
• Automated External Defibrillator
• Designed to be easy to use
• Not always replacement for CPR

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26 Section 5 Units 9 10 Bleeding and Shock

• Remember Universal Precautions
• Ensure good practices
• Term shock often misused
• Define shock
• Shock is failure of heart blood vessels to
  maintain sufficient blood flow to vital organs

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27 Section 6 Units 11 12 Injuries and Wounds

• Soft tissue injuries
• Bedside manner
• Practice bandaging
• Musculoskeletal Injuries
• do no harm
• Cold never applied directly to skin

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28 Section 7 Units 13 14 Other Medical
Emergencies

• Poisoning Stings Bites
• When providing community class limit material to
  local likelihoods
• For divers include sea snakes
• Other Medical Emergencies
• Divers taking course should be aware of
  contraindications

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29 Section 8 Units 15, 16, 17 Environmental
Emergencies

• Burns no ointment or home remedies
• Heat Cold Issues
• Stress being prepared better than being treated
• Water Hazards
• Easy to prevent drowning
• For non divers no need to present diving maladies

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30 Section 9 Unit 18 Victim Transport

• Stress do no harm
• Transport only to prevent further injury
• Always preferable to treat where victim found
• Providers should always use proper posture to
  avoid injury

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31 Organizing Academics by Course

• 1st Aid, Sections 1,2,5,6,7,8,9
• CPR Sections 1,2,3
• AED Sections 1,2,4
• Blood Borne Pathogens, Section 1
• Emergency O2 Sections 1,2,4

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32 Exams and Post Course Review

• All courses require evaluation and assessment of
  skills
• Two versions of final exam in IG
• Individual Exams in IG
• Post Course Review important for quality control
  and improvement

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33 Summary What we covered

• Who may teach
• Ratios
• Preparation
• Teaching Aids
• Instructor Materials
• Student Materials
• Scheduling
• Academic Sessions
• Practical Sessions
• Victim handling
• Exams Post Course Review

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34 Performance Assessment

• State who may teach
• Active status instructor who has purchased own
  copy
• Leadership members who have attended 1st Aid
  course
• List three teaching aids
• Laptop computer
• Video projector
• Video (although not required)

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35 Assessment cont

• Explain value of post course review
• Quality Control
• Continuous improvement

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36 Questions?