Babysitting Course
Course Overview
The Canadian Red Cross Babysitting course covers everything from managing difficult behaviours to essential content on leadership and professional conduct as a babysitter. Babysitting promises to deepen and enhance the responsibility that older youth feel when caring for younger children. This updated curriculum, complete with new science, also provides improved learning when it comes to giving the appropriate care in the event of an emergency.
Age Requirement
Our Babysitting Course is offered to children aged from 11 to 15.
What You Will Learn From This Course:
- Check, Call, Care (includes phoning EMS/911)
- Glove removal
- Recovery position
- Conscious choking (adult/child/baby/alone)
- CPR (baby/child)
- illness, asthma (includes use of inhaler and spacer)
- anaphylaxis (includes use of EpiPen)
- Poisoning
- Insect stings
- Wound care (i.e. minor cuts and scrapes, splinters, nosebleeds, bumps and bruises, life-threatening bleeding, burns)
- Head, neck and back injuries, broken bones, seizures
Tips & Facts About Babysitting
To understand your responsibility as a babysitter a little better please watch this short clip which provides excellent tips about babysitting.
Upon successful completion of the course, you get to take home great skills along with your very own babysitters manual.