The life of a Lifeguard
Many people, especial now in 2016, think that lifeguarding is not a career; it’s more or less a hobby. This is not the case at all. An article from ilifegaurd.net says there are five reasons that anyone should consider being a lifegaurd. One of the reasons is to make a difference. It says that even though they are getting paid, they are making their community a safer place. The second reason is you learn how to save lives. Anybody who has a job gets a paycheck but not everybody gets paid to save a person’s life. A third reason is you stay in shape. Swimming is a great exercise and doing it everyday can have a huge impact on your overall health. The fourth reason is you get to be apart of a team. You work with the same people every day saving lives, so getting attached to them is easy to do. The fifth reason is to improve your resume. Many kids once they leave high school and are starting their life, they don’t have many impressing things to put on a resume to make them look like the right person for the job. Being able to put lifeguarding on it makes others know that you you have certain skills that the average person doesn’t have.
When becoming a lifeguard, you must learn all types of victims needs. A person who is experiencing a water emergency may have different needs than someone else; therefore there needs to be
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For example, if it is not a life threatening emergency then the lifeguards won’t even enter the water. A way for the lifeguard to help without getting in is using water equipment like the shepherds crook and the ring buoy. If there is a life threatening emergency then the guards will use techniques like the slide in entry, stride jump, compact jump, and the run and swim entry. Many lifeguards will agree that the hardest part of the rescue is choosing which one to use because it can become a life or death
Forty hands shot up pointing towards the bottom of the old twisty slide following the long dreadful whistle no one ever wants to hear. Two other lifeguards and I jumped up off the shaded break bench and rushed towards the scene with the heavy backboard and AED bag in hand. The routine save played like a movie through my head as I arrived. I stopped. I knew from there on out this wasn't going to be emotionally an easy save. It wasn't a child who swallowed too much water or an adult who got nervous because they forgot how to swim, it was a fellow lifeguard, a friend.
While walking to school one day Florida sophomore Jalen Lee came upon a woman who wasn’t breathing. Thanks to training Lee received during his high school’s first aid class he knew just what to do. Lee administered CPR, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and possibly saved the woman’s life. CPR training in high schools has helped countless students around the country save the lives of friends, loved ones, and strangers. Providing CPR training to all students will save even more lives.
Have you ever accidentally hit an Olympic gold medalist in the face? Hopefully you haven’t... Unfortunately, I have. It was a warm, summer day at the beach club where I work. The waves were crashing down in the ocean several yards away, and dozens of high-energy children and chronically-nervous parents were enjoying the last week of summer before the school year started. Lifeguarding here was my first job ever, and up to this point it had been going great.
We tend to help the paramedics with lifting assistance if the patient is a larger person. We also go to CPR calls to help try to make the chances of survival higher. One of the worst parts of the medical portion is overdoses. An overdose can be with prescription drugs or usually heroin. We canister the patient with narcan to possibly bring them
I could write about millions of thing to you, but I would really like to tell you all about my summer break. Don’t get me wrong it was an amazing summer in all but, I just wish I had a little more time with my dad, and a little less time with work. My dad’s been in the navy for about fifteen years, I do believe. He’s been stationed in Maine, Louisiana, Ohio, and now, The Golden State, California.
I began as a lifeguard and within a year I was promoted to a head lifeguard. A year later I was the manager of a staff of 50 of my peers. This job has been demanding mentally and emotionally. I have had to schedule a semester's worth of lifeguard shifts, plan and run week long training events and be a leader to my peers. I have had to be the disciplinarian to lifeguards who were unable to fulfill their duties, I have has to write my peers up, require my peers to go to extra training and even fire some of my peers. These are not things I enjoy doing, but they are vital to the safety of our facility. Our job as lifeguards is to prevent injury and if that is not possible then we need to be fully trained and prepared to deal with any emergency at any time. I expect these requirements along with good attitudes and respect for our members and our facility from every single one of my lifeguards. However, not all my lifeguards agree with my standard. Some feel I am too intense and serious about lifeguarding, but what they don’t know is I have had members of past facilities pass away. My lifeguards have done everything correct, they knew their CPR and the Emergency Action Plan and the patron still passed away. Because of this instance, I hold high
Diving has gotten away from the stereotype based on the early days of diving, that it is a rough and tough sport requiring extreme endurance and strength. Today it is viewed as an activity done by both men and women and even children. While diving is promoted as a leisure sport, it is still a sport. One that takes an amount of physical activity. We start by carrying heavy tanks on our backs. We are in constant motion for the entire dive. Even breathing is a more difficult as we must overcome the additional pressure on our body as we expand our chest.
Safety is the number one concern with any water sport. In May, the U.S. Coast Guard released its Recreational Boating Statistics, which revealed 701 boating fatalities nationwide in 2016 (Coast Guard). Alcohol
Approximately one year ago, I was eight months into my job as a lifeguard. I had already been instructing lessons for a year and a half, but lifeguarding was still relatively new for me. Even after eight months, I
N.A. “Traffic Safety facts 2011: Alcohol-Impaired Diving.” National Highway Traffic Administration. 2012. Web. 2 April 2014. .
Introduction: I have had the dream of owning my own business for quite a long time now. Since I was 16 years old I have wanted to create a company that is all my own so I can run it the way I would like to and have a brand that people enjoy using. All throughout high school I have tried to pick courses that will only benefit me and create my own business. My senior year in high school approached me with a lot of tough questions to answer like “where do I want to go to school, what should I major in, and should I take a year off from school”. For a long time before I decided I wanted to own my own business, I wanted to be a law enforcement officer, specifically a Game Warden.
7. Learn CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation). This applies particularly to pool owners and water sports enthusiasts.
Before recreational or sport divers can take a plunge into the water, they must complete a course in scuba diving and become certified. There are many scuba diving agencies, the largest being PADI, but there are many others, including the National Association of Underwater Instructors and the National Association of Scuba Diving Schools. All agencies require that participants be proficient swimmers, in reasonably good health, and at least 12 years of age. The course usually consists of classroom work, practice in a pool or confined body of water, and dives in open water. In the course, students learn to use diving equipment, to equalize air pressure as they descend, to swim efficiently underwater, to clear the mask if water leaks in, and to ascend safely. Because divers cannot talk to each other underwater, they also learn how to communicate underwater with hand signals. Scuba diving should always be practiced with at least one other person, and partners should remain together throughout the dive. Certification courses teach divers the rules and advantages of the buddy system. Diving partners learn to double-check each other’s equipment, share a single air supply, and assist one another should a problem occur. Neutral Buoyancy is an important skill taught in certification class. Neutral Buoyancy is a state, in which the individual neither sinks nor floats. In this weightless state, a diver conserves energy and air and keeps diving equipment off the bottom where it could be damaged.
Reports state that drowning is the leading cause of unintentional death making it a major health risk. This is especially significant because the death of a child accounts for life lost and emotional damage for families and communities. Adding to the tragedy are the 5,000 more children who have experienced near-drowning emergencies (Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, 2012). This is also a significant community health risk; placing the burden of cost on the community. It is estimated that care costs for drowning victims account for $250,000 per year. Drowning is preventable and prevention programs exist which can reduce its impact, however, community based programs are lacking. Because families are the first to respond to a drowning it is important to provide information that will guide their actions, however, prevention is key. Most parents do not realize that within a matter of moments, children can slip beneath the water and drown. Water is fun, but it is also deadly.
Public safety covers a wide variety of people and organizations, but carries one common theme and that is, the public’s safety. This course has broadened my knowledge on the many roles that make the public safety sector go around and the role the public plays in it as well. My thoughts before the course were close minded and to the point. I quickly realized that policing is not as cut and dry as I once portrayed it to be. Society is always changing and adapting, and it is the job of the those in public safety to adapt and change with it. The mindset that I grew up with, in rural Saskatchewan, was the police are good people and you will only need to deal with them if you break the law or see someone break the law. My answers in the module 1 survey reflected my upbringing. My first thought for