Course Objectives:

• Demonstrate the professionalism required for working as a lifeguard.
• List the lifeguard’s responsibilities related to ensuring a safe physical environment for patrons.
• Understand the lifeguard’s critical role in preventing death and disability from drowning.
• Identify the behaviors of a swimmer, a distressed swimmer, an active drowning person and a passive drowning person.
• Demonstrate proper technique for scanning and rotations.
• Describe the general procedure to follow when responding to a water emergency.
• Demonstrate how to safely and effectively perform assists.
• Demonstrate how to safely and effectively rescue a person when they are at or near the surface of the water or submerged.
• Demonstrate how to safely and effectively extricate a person from the water using rapid extrication techniques.
• Demonstrate how to safely and effectively rescue and extricate a person from the water using spinal motion restriction techniques.
• Describe the general procedure to follow when responding to a medical emergency.
• Demonstrate care for respiratory arrest using a resuscitation mask and a bag-valve-mask (BVM) resuscitator.
• Demonstrate high-quality CPR and use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) as a single rescuer and as part of a multiple-rescuer team response with up to four rescuers.
• Demonstrate the ability to work as part of a team to implement an emergency action plan (EAP), perform a rapid and secondary assessment and provide resuscitative or first aid care.
• Recognize and care for sudden illnesses and injuries that may affect people in an aquatic facility.