Topics You Will Learn

This is a four hour "no nonsense" program.

We follow Universal Guidelines established in 2006

and the requirements of WA Labor and Industries

for a Valid First Aid Card

(WAC 296-800-15010)

The topics required by WA L&I and covered in class are:

  • Role and responsibilities of the first-aid provider

  • Assessing a scene

  • Performing an initial and ongoing assessment of an injured or ill person

  • Scene safety

  • Body substance isolation/bloodborne pathogens

  • Performing an emergency move

  • Placing an ill person in the recovery position

  • Opening and maintaining an airway

  • Providing rescue breathing

  • Managing an obstructed airway

  • Performing adult/one-rescuer CPR

  • Recognizing the warning signs and symptoms of medical problems

  • Recognizing and caring for an injured or ill person with decreased levels of responsiveness

  • Controlling external bleeding and recognizing internal bleeding

  • Recognizing and caring for victims of shock

  • Recognizing and stabilizing spinal injury

  • Recognizing and manually stabilizing suspected skeletal injuries

  • Knowledge of voluntary provisions of first aid, consent and confidentiality (WAC 296-24)

    • Additional topics include:

  • CPR for children and infants

  • Caring for illness emergencies: heart attack, stroke, diabetic, seizures, asthma, and allergies

  • Bites: animal, human, snake, spiders, and ticks

  • Heat related injuries

  • Cold related injuries

  • Electrical injuries

  • Poisoning

    WA State requires successful completion of first aid training (which includes CPR) every two years instead of one year for CPR and three years for first aid.

    • If you need to register for this class, see one of the schedule pages

    | Yakima Schedule

    | Pasco Schedule

    or phone 509-452-9929

    You may also e-mail us at

    | classesforyou@yahoo.com

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