This adventure will provide Webelos Scouts with an introduction to the skills and responsibilities of a first responder. Activities will cover essential personal safety and first-aid skills.
Takeaways
- Essential first-aid skills
- Essential personal safety skills
- Understanding of the role of the first responder in the local community
- A Scout is brave, courteous.
Requirements
Complete 1 and at least five others.
- Explain what first aid is. Tell what you should do after an accident.
- Show what to do for hurry cases of first aid: Serious bleeding, heart attack or sudden cardiac arrest, stopped breathing, stroke, poisoning
- Show how to help a choking victim.
- Show how to treat for shock.
- Demonstrate how to treat at least five of the following:
- Cuts and scratches,
- Burns and scalds,
- Sunburn,
- Blisters on the hand or foot,
- Tick bites,
- Bites and stings of other insects,
- Venomous snakebites,
- Nosebleed,
- Frostbite
- Put together a simple home first-aid kit. Explain what you included and how to use each item correctly.
- Create and practice an emergency readiness plan for your home or den meeting place.
- Visit with a first responder or health care professional.