Leisure Skills - CPR First Aid

Student performing CPR in Leisure Skills class

Course Description

The purpose of the American Red Cross Standard First Aid with AED course is to give individuals the knowledge and skills necessary to prevent, recognize and provide basic care for infants, children, and adults with injuries and sudden illness, including using an automated external defibrillator (AED) for victims of sudden cardiac arrest, until advanced personnel arrive and take over.

Course Objectives

Be able to recognize and handle an emergency.
Demonstrate how to practice basic precautions to reduce the risk of disease transmission.
Be able to check the scene for safety and the victim for consciousness.
To know when and how to move a victim from a dangerous scene.
To know when to call and how to interact with emergency medical services ( EMS).
To know how to prioritize care for life-threatening injuries or sudden illness.
Demonstrate how to check a conscious victim for life-threatening and nonlife-threatening conditions.
To know how to care for shock.
Demonstrate how to clear the airway of a conscious choking adult.
Demonstrate how to check an unconscious victim.
Demonstrate how to give care to give an infant, child, and adult victim who shows signs of circulation but is not breathing.
Demonstrate how to give infant, child, and adult CPR.
Demonstrate how to use an AED for an adult in cardiac arrest.
Demonstrate how to clear the airway of an unconscious choking infant, child, and adult.
Demonstrate how to control external bleeding.
Demonstrate how to immobilize muscle, bone, and joint injuries, including injuries to the head, neck, and back.
Successful completion of requirements for American Red Cross Standard First Aid with AED, Infant CPR, and Child CPR certifications.

Instructor Info:

Harriet Dixon

Undergraduate and Master of Science from East Carolina University in Recreation and Leisure Services Administration
Graduate Student in PRTM--Community Recreation
American Red Cross CPR/First Aid Instructor, Lifeguard Instructor, & Water Safety Instructor Trainer
Leisure Interests: Traveling, Art (appreciating and creating), going to see Widespread Panic shows
Originally from Eastern N.C.
Married to Anthony Dixon
One cat named Tamarindo