CPR & FIRST AID BLOG
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5 Workplace Safety Guidelines
How much attention does your workplace pay to safety practices and observing proper regulations? If you’re like many American businesses, not nearly enough. Some workplaces may even consider themselves immune to certain risks--after all, an office environment doesn’t...
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3 Classroom Safety Tips
In a room full of small children, safety is a paramount concern. Teachers especially should be aware of the potential hazards. It’s all too easy to focus on “child-proofing” the classroom itself or the tools the students use without considering emergency situations....
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5 Common Emergency First Aid Mistakes
Emergency situations strike without warning. Unfortunately, it can be too easy to forget your first aid lessons and make a mistake despite your good intentions. In a pinch, do you know how to help someone who needs it? More importantly, do you know what not to do?...
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Group CPR Training for Healthcare Professionals
It almost goes without saying that doctors, nurses, and others in the healthcare field need to take excellent CPR courses. After all, patients trust them to provide quality care and emergency help in any situation. CPR training is a must for healthcare professionals....
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Why Your Teaching Staff Needs Group CPR Training
The more people are gathered in one place, the more likely it is for a medical emergency to occur. The crowds at schools or universities are an all-too-common setting for sudden cardiac arrest or another emergency. Worse, these occurrences don’t discriminate. While...
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Options for Renewing Your CPR Certification
CPR is a relatively easy but remarkably important skill to learn. This simple procedure has saved countless lives! But despite how easy it is to learn CPR, just like any lesson, people can forget with time. In an emergency situation, you might forget anything from how...
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Different Training Levels for a Group CPR Class
CPR courses teach more than just chest compressions and rescue breaths. A typical class also includes instruction on how to help a stroke victim or how to intervene in different types of medical emergencies. While this information is generally good to know, not...
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What to Look for in a Group CPR Class
In a group CPR class, lessons will consist of everything from basic CPR to identifying stroke symptoms. There likely won’t be any surprises. However, there are several things aside from the lessons themselves to pay attention to in a group CPR class. Everyone knows...
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3 Excellent Reasons to Learn CPR
Depending on your career field, you may have taken a CPR class already or know that one is in your near future. If not, you may be wondering what the point of studying CPR is at all. If it’s not required for your career, is it really that crucial of a skill? There are...
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What Will a Group CPR Class Teach You?
A group CPR class is different from a one-on-one lesson or even an online course, so it’s only natural that you may be wondering what a group CPR class will teach you. If you’re considering signing up but stuck wondering, “What will I learn in a CPR class?”, this blog...
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