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Red Cross Babysitting

The Red Cross Babysitting course, refreshed and revised, now has a greater emphasis on First Aid skills. The Canadian Red Cross Babysitting course covers everything from managing difficult behaviours to essential content on leadership and professional conduct as a babysitter. Babysitting promises to deepen and enhance the responsibility that older youth feel when caring for younger children. This updated curriculum, complete with new science, also provides improved learning when it comes to giving the appropriate care in the event of an emergency.

PREREQUISITE: AGES 11 TO 15 YEARS

Course Content

How to be responsible and demonstrate leadership
How to make good decisions and manage difficult behaviours
Information on children’s developmental stages, and specific strategies for each stage
How to feed, diaper, dress, and play with children and babies
How to recognize and prevent unsafe situations, make safe choices and promote safe behaviours
First aid skills

FIRST AID CONTENT:

Check, Call, Care (includes phoning EMS/911)
Glove removal
Recovery position
Conscious choking (adult/child/baby/alone)
CPR (baby/child)
Illness
Asthma (includes use of inhaler and spacer)
Anaphylaxis (includes use of EpiPen)
Poisoning
Insect stings
Wound care (i.e. minor cuts and scrapes, splinters, nosebleeds, bumps and bruises, life-threatening bleeding, burns)
Head, neck and back injuries
Broken bones
Seizures

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