First Responder Course

A comprehensive 40-hour program for the professional rescuers such as fire service, rescue team, workplace response team, sports-medicine professionals, lifeguards, and ski patrol.  This most recent version of this Canadian Red Cross certification launched in October 2018.  Participants will be engaged in dynamic training techniques including video, media presentations, skills demonstrations, practice sessions, discussions, and scenarios based on real-life situations.

COURSE CONTENT:

• The Professional Responder
• Responding to the call
• Infection prevention and control
• Anatomy and physiology
• Assessment
• Airway management and respiratory emergencies
• Circulatory emergencies
• Shock
• Hemorrhage and soft tissue trauma
• Musculoskeletal injuries
• Chest, abdominal and pelvic injuries
• Head and spinal injuries
• Acute and chronic illnesses
• Poisoning
• Environmental illnesses
• Pregnancy, labour, and delivery
• Special populations
• Crisis intervention
• Reaching, lifting, and extricating patients
• Multiple-casualty incidents

Includes any other content required by specific provincial legislation.

COURSE COMPLETION:

• Successfully demonstrate the required skills.
• Minimum 75% mark for written, closed book, knowledge evaluation.
• Successfully complete minimum of one practical scenario.
• Attend and participate in 100% of the course.
• Re-cert by attending 2 days of a full course or by attending a 2-day re-cert course.

PARTICIPATION DETAILS:

• Participants should dress comfortably and in layers.
• Each participant receives an electronic wallet and wall certificate, rescue breathing barrier device, and a pocket mask for use during the course.
• Participants may bring their own BP cuff and stethoscope or use the practice ones provided.

UPCOMING COURSES:

First Responder Certification

• Saturday and Sunday November 23 & 24, 2024 (online theory) and January 5 & 6 and in person January
• Saturday and Sunday April 5, 6, 12 & 13, 2025 (all in person).
• Saturday and Sunday November 15, 16, 22 & 23, 2025 (all in person).

First Responder Recert

• Saturday and Sunday January 4 & 5, 2025
• Saturday and Sunday March 12 & 13, 2025
• Saturday and Sunday April 12 & 13, 2025
• Saturday and Sunday June 21 & 22, 2025
• Saturday and Sunday July 19 & 20, 2025
• Saturday and Sunday October 18 & 19, 2025
• Saturday and Sunday November 22 & 23, 2025

CERTIFICATION: $500 + HST ea.

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RECERTIFICATION: $350 + HST ea.

• Check Course Registration or contact Action Rehab Therapy to set up a course.

COVID-19 and General Health Notes:

• Participants who are unwell, have a fever, and/or believe they may have recently been expose to COVD-19 are asked to reschedule their course for when they are well.
• Participants may choose to wear a face mask but it is not mandatory.
• First Responder course participants will be issued a N95, KN95, or CA-KN95 Mask to use whenever scenarios indicate a need for this level of PPE.