Professionalism
What four items should a lifeguard wear at all times when guarding?
what is a whistle, hip pack, rescue tube, and lifeguard shirt.
What is distressed, active, and passive.
You approach someone who appears to be unconscious. What is your first step?
What is survey the scene.
What is 14 years old and younger
One long whistle blast is
What is clearing the pool
What two items should be in a lifeguard's hip pack?
Ventilation Mask with one-way valve and 2 pairs of gloves
What three parts of the water should you be scanning?
What is top, middle, and bottom
What is re-tilt the head and re-seal the mask and attempt another ventilation.
Swimmers must do this before entering a pool or hot tub
What is Shower
What is clear the pool and pool area/get people into the locker rooms and lock the doors.
This is the way a lifeguard may sit in an elevated chair
Where is a lifeguard's #1 blindspot?
What is right under them
You have an infant who after your 10-second ABC check you feel a thumping under your fingertips but do not see the chest rising. What skill do you perform and how do you do it?
What is ventilations. You give 1 breath every 3 seconds for 2 minutes, then reassess ABCs.
Shallow-Water Swim Test and wristband color
What is front float with face in the water for 5 seconds and recover to standing, back float for 5 seconds and recover to standing in chest-deep water without assistance-- blue wristband
What is Activate EAP with 1-long whistle blast. drop red phone or push emergency button. Enter the water and put in head-splint. Check for breathing. Instruct assisting staff to retrieve back board and direct them how to assist you with the back-boarding procedure.
Lifeguards should do this when people enter the pool area
What are your three entries you can use to enter the water?
What is compact, stride, and slide-in entries
What is SAMPLE
What is Signs and Symptoms, Allergies, Medications, Pertinent Past Medical History, Last Food or Drink, and Events leading up to the incident.
This item is not allowed on the pool deck/area
What is Glass
The radio goes off, instructing that there is a tornado warning. The sirens go off. What do you do?
What is clear the pool, instruct people to go to the men's, women's, or family locker room to take cover. Grab the radio and go to a locker room as well. Wait until the all-clear is directed.
Shifts and shift coverage are this person's responsibility
What is the scheduled staff member's responsibility
What is visual, red-flag, or live victim/scenario audit.
A staff member is stumbling and has slurred speech. What acronym can you use to figure out what is going on, what is going on, and how do you treat it?
What is FAST (face, arms, speech, time), a stroke, and you have them rest in a comfortable position as EMS is summoned and get oxygen and talk to them until EMS take over.
Deep-Water swim test and wristband color
What is JUMPING into the deepest part of the pool, treading for 30 seconds, front float with face in the water for 10 seconds, tread for 10 more seconds and recover to the side of the pool without stopping. Pink Wristband
There is an active-shooter in the building. What do you do?
What is attempt to clear the pool. Either Get Out, Hide, or Fight.