2026-Basic/Emergency First Aid

Basic one-day course offering lifesaving first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) Level C skills for the workplace, where only CPR is needed, or home.

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Duration
All in-class OR in-class + online learning*

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Course Run Time: 9:15am-4:15pm; 9:15am-1:45pm (Blended)

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Instructor                 

First Aid Instructor

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Completion

• Successfully demonstrate skills and critical steps

• Min. 75% mark for written knowledge evaluation

• Attend and participate in 100% of the course

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Certification    

3-year certification in Emergency First Aid and CPR Level C (Adult, Child, and Infant)

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Recertification

4 hours in-class + 4 hours online learning*

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*Online learning time will vary depending on the learner.

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Course Content            

•         Land Acknowledgement
•         Safety Statement
•         The Fundamental Principles of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement 
•         The Red Cross (Our History, The Fundamental Principles, Red Cross Symbols, Who We Are)  •         Responding to Emergencies (Preparing to Respond, Preparing for Emergencies at Home, Signs of an Emergency, Willingness to Act, Legal Issues Around First Aid, Good Samaritan Laws, Workplace First Aid, Getting Permission to Help, Duty to Report Child Abuse or Neglect, Responding to Disclosures of Violence, The Emergency Medical Services System,  Understanding Your Role as a First Aider, Understanding Your Role in the EMS System, Activating EMS, When to Call EMS/9-1-1, Poison Centres, Calling EMS/9-1-1 for a Child in Your Care, After an Emergency, Lowering the Risk of Infection, How to Prevent Diseases from Spreading, Personal Precautions, Equipment Precautions, Environmental Precautions)
•         Check, Call, Care (Check, Call, Care, Secondary Assessment, Shock, Providing First Aid for Someone with a Disability)
•         Choking (Partial Choking, Complete Choking, Responsive Adult or Child over 12 Months, Special Choking Circumstances, If You Are by Yourself and Choking, Choking Baby (Less Than 12 Months), Unresponsive Choking)
•         Circulation Emergencies (Cardiovascular Disease, Heart Attack, Angina, Stroke, Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA), Life-Threatening Bleeding, Life-Threatening External Bleeding, Using a Tourniquet, Using Hemostatic Dressings, Life-Threatening Internal Bleeding)
•         CPR and AED  (Cardiac Arrest, Cardiac Arrest, Adult (After the Onset of Puberty), Cardiac Arrest, Child (1 Year to the Onset of Puberty), Cardiac Arrest, Baby (Less Than 12 Months),  Continue CPR Until, What to Do if the Rescue Breaths Don’t Go In, Compression-Only CPR, Maximizing CPR Efficiency, CPR Compression Depth for an Adult, CPR Compression Depth for a Child or Baby, Chest Compression Rates, Chest Recoil, Decreasing Compression Fraction (Off-Chest Time), Special Considerations, CPR for a Pregnant Person, Air in the Stomach, Vomiting, Mouth-to-Nose Breathing, External Defibrillation, Using an AED , Considerations for Safe and Effective AED Use, Medical Direction and AEDs, AED Maintenance, Two-Person CPR)
•         Breathing Emergencies (Respiratory Distress, Hyperventilation, Asthma, What to Do, Using an Inhaler, Using an Inhaler with a Spacer, Allergic Reactions, Anaphylaxis)
•         Wound Care (Bandaging Guidelines, Triangular Bandages, Cuts and Scrapes (Minor Bleeding), Puncture Wounds, Scalp Injuries, Infection, Burns, Thermal Burns, Chemical Burns, Electrical Burns, Radiation Burns, Special Considerations When Caring for Burns, Bruises, Splinters, Nosebleeds, Foreign Objects in the Nose, Knocked-Out Teeth, Eye Injuries, Flash Eye, Ear Injuries, Impaled Objects, Amputations, Crush Injuries, Chest Injuries, Penetrating Chest Injuries, Blunt Chest Injuries, Abdominal Wounds Blast Injuries)
•         Head, Neck, Spine, and Pelvis Injuries (The Neck and Spine, The Brain, The Pelvis, Head, Neck, Spine, or Pelvis Injury Concussion, Shaken Baby Syndrome)

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Participants Materials            

• First Aid & CPR (eBook)

• Comprehensive Guide to First Aid & CPR (eBook)

• Emergency First Aid – Online (Blended only)

• Emergency First Aid certificate (digital certificate issued upon successful completion)

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Course Cost

$132.00 (tax included)