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    Lifeguard final exam 100% VERIF IED ANSW ERS 2024/2025 To prevent drowning and other injuries from occurring at your aquatic facility Primary responsibility 1. Monitoring activities in and near the water through patron surveillance, 2.preventing injuries by minimizing or illuminating hazardous situations or behaviors, 3. enforcing rules and regulations, 4.recognizing in responding quickl y to all emergencies 5.working as a team with other lifeguards facility staff and supervisors Primary responsibilities include 1.Testing pool water 2.assisting patrons 3.cleaning Secondary responsibilities include You have the legal responsibility to act i n an emergency Legal considerations duty to act You expect to meet a minimum standard of care these include communication to prevent injuries recognition of someone in need of care attempt to rescue those who need assistance and provide emergency care to y our level of training Legal considerations standard of care When a person is injured or suffers additional horn because lifeguards failed to follow the standard of care or fail to act at all

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    Legal consideration negligence Once care is initiated care must c ontinue until someone with equal or greater training arrives and takes over Legal considerations abandonment All information received this confidential to the patient/victim Legal considerations confidentiality Properly document all injuries and incidents Legal considerations documentation You must ask permission to provide care do this state your name level of training ask to help, explain what you plan to do. if the person is unable to respond or unconscious consent is implied. if it is a child ask parent al permission if a parent is not immediately available consent is implied Legal consideration consent If a victim refuses care after you explain why you think it's necessary document if you deem situation potentially life - threatening call EMS to evaluate L egal consideration refusal of care Clean debris's from pool water raise CL2 level and maintain for 25 minutes Fecal and Vomit Clear the pool and outside area and keep clothes for 30 minutes after last sighting When lightning is sited

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    No your facility rules and enforce that it is the faculties responsibility to endure all that policies rules procedures and and emerand emergency action plans are in place Rules and regulations Recognition of dangerous behaviors bobbing, crawling hand over hand, using flotation devices Surveillance includes Can't keep their face out of the water can call for help horizontal vertical or diagonal position floating sculling or treading water Distressed swimmer Can I call for help works to keep face above water arms to the side or in front pressing down for support can struggle underwater one submerged will eventually lose consciousness and stop moving Active drowning victim Maybe floating Face Time face up at or near the surface or sink to the bottom maybe limp of slight convulsive type movements no locomotion in no breathing Passive drowning victim A visual technique for watching patrons in the water Effective scanning If an active active aroun d as well on duty is probably due to one or more of the following causes 1. Recognition failure to recognize a swimmers in destress 2. Distraction anything that takes your focus off the patron surveillance 3.

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