| Bronze Cross |
The Bronze Cross award is designed for lifesavers who want the challenge of more advanced training, including an introduction to safe supervision in aquatic facilities.
Bronze Cross is a prerequisite for all advanced training programs, including National Lifeguard Service® (NLS) and Instructor certification.
Prerequisites: Bronze Medallion.
Evaluation: Items marked with an asterisk (*) are instructor-evaluated in those provinces/teritories where examination by an examiner is compulsory. Examiners may evaluate any or all of these items at their discretion.
Test items:
H2O Proficiency
- * Starting on a deck, dock or beach, perform an entry and swim a 50 m head-up approach with a shoulder loop and line, or rescue tube, to a passive victim or manikin. Tow the victim 50 m to safety.
- * Swim head-up for two sets of 6 x 25 m, maintaining a consistent pace and work-to-rest ratio. Rest for 1 minute between sets. Check your pulse after the last repeat in each set.
- * Swim 600 m continuously, in 18 minutes, using any combination of strokes.
First Aid
- * Demonstrate primary assessment of a conscious victim and an unconscious victim, including:
- Level of consciousness
- Airway
- Breathing
- Circulation
- Major bleeding
- Mechanism of injury
- * Demonstrate secondary assessment of a victim, including:
- Vital signs
- Head-to-toe survey
- History
- * Demonstrate rescue breathing and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a manikin for the following circumstances:
- Adult, child and infant victims
- Complications in resuscitation (vomiting, gastric distention)
- Adaptations (mouth-to-nose, stoma, jaw-thrust)
- * Demonstrate two rescuer adult, child and infant CPR on a manikin.
- * Simulate the treatment of:
- A conscious adult or child with an obstructed airway
- Complications with a pregnant woman and person who is obese
- * On a manikin, simulate the treatment of a conscious infant with an obstructed airway.
- * Simulate the treatment of an unwitnessed unconscious adult, child or infant with an unobstructed airway.
- * Demonstrate the care and treatment of a victim suffering from hypothermia.
Recognition and Rescue
- * Walk around an aquatic environment, evaluate the ongoing activities, and demonstrate how to educate peers about safe aquatic leisure choices. Evaluate and correct, where appropriate, hazardous conditions in unsupervised areas.
- Recover and immobilize a face-down non-breathing victim, found in deep water with a suspected cervical spinal injury. Transport the victim to shallow water and recruit and direct a trained bystander to assist. Demonstrate rescue breathing and the ability to manage vomiting while maintaining immobilization.
- * Using bystanders, organize a logical underwater search of an area with both shallow and deep water to maximum depth of 3 m.
- Perform a rescue involving two or more victims. Simulate a situation where one victim requires rescuer assistance, while the other victim(s) can follow directions for self-rescue and assist as bystanders once they have reached a point of safety. Simulate a situation that is designed to emphasize communication skills, victim care, removal, and follow-up, including contact with the Emergency Medical System (EMS).
- Perform a rescue of a submerged, non-breathing and pulseless victim. Simulate a situation that is designed to emphasize victim care, removal and follow-up including contact with EMS.
- * Perform a rescue of an injured victim in a two rescuer situation. Swim a 50 m approach and a 50 m return. Simulate a situation that is designed to emphasize either contact or non-contact rescues, victim care, removals and follow-up, including contact with EMS.
- Perform a rescue of a victim suffering injuries or with conditions that emphasize rescuer response to deteriorating circumstances. Include the use of bystanders and a 20 m approach and a 20 m return.
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