Leaders and Scouts Get Certified

Mar 12, 2007 - Gord Welling (Rusty)

Four Scouters (leaders), one parent volunteer, four Scouts and one Guide Leader attended first training during the weekend of March 10th-11th and earned their Stnadard First Aid and CPR certifications.

Training included:

• Emergency scene management (ESM).
• Primary survey, ABCs, secondary survey, and continuing care.
• adult and infant CPR.
• handling unconscious casualties, bleeding wounds, fractures, and head and spinal injuries.

Thanks to:

We want to thank our first aid instructors, Sylvain Lapierre and John Colyer from 408 Helicopter Squadron at CFB Edmonton who hosted and ran a well delivered course.

Certifications

Congratulations go to the following individuals for earning Standard First Aid and CPR Basic Rescuer:

• Scouters Jennifer Smith, Gord Welling, Curtis Aikens, Gerhard Beckmann
• Parent volunteer Howard Stevens
• Scouts Ashton, xxx, xxx and xxx
• Guide leader Jayne Dobbins

The Standard First Aid badge can be worn on our uniforms. It is identified as an "Agency Badge" in the uniform diagrams. Leaders can wear the badge on their shirt on the right sleeve, and Scouts can wear it on their sash.

2nd St. Albert Scouts is making an effort to ensure that at least two leaders in each Section are certified for Standard First Aid and CPR. Certifications are good for a 3 year period.

First Aid training is also being identified as an important of all youth programs except for Beavers. We are looking at which courses to provide to Cubs, Scouts, Venturers, Rovers, Scouters-in-Training and Activity Leaders. We will have more information in a future article.