What to Expect: Hybrid CPR/First Aid Class for Child Care in Somerville, MA
Do you work in a child care center? Are you a caregiver?
Then you need to get First Aid, CPR, and AED certified!
Reach out!
Get in touch with me via email kayla@b2bcpr.net, text or call 617-764-9332, or fill out our Get in Touch form. Let’s have a conversation to set up where you need your class, what your needs are, talk about financials, and set a date.
A Hybrid Class
Oh, you’re a child care director looking to get your 6 teachers certified right when the center closes. You need a short training because your teachers have already had a long day supervising young children. Let’s do a hybrid class at the local child care center in Somerville, MA for 6 teachers to be held on June 25th from 6:00pm - 8:00pm. I got you!
Once you send me a list of teacher’s names how they would like them to appear on certificates and their email addresses, I can set up the hybrid class on American Red Cross Learning Center website. Immediately after setting this up, your teachers will get an email from Salesforce (American Red Cross) with a link to the American Red Cross Learning Center website to sign up and begin their online modules associated with our course.
Get Through Those Online Modules
These online modules can take anywhere from 1-4 hours depending on experience level, English language acquisition, and learning style. Set aside some this time in your calendar because these online modules NEED TO BE COMPLETED BEFORE class time on June 25th. If you run into trouble with the online learning component for any reason, please reach out to me. Let’s work together to solve the problem so you can be sucessful in our class!
Have a Voice With Our Invoice
I will send you an invoice for class. The two line items you will find are $40 per certificate and $125/per hour for the class. If the financials cause you to have anxiety, let’s have a discussion and come to a mutually beneficial agreement.
It’s Class Time!
June 25th is here and class is about to begin. I arrive after the last child leaves and start setting up for class. At 6:00, Teachers fill out the sign-in sheet and show me proof of completion for the online modules. In the past, participants have shown me the completion email they get from Salesforce or a screenshot of the Learning Center dashboard where class completion shows 100%.
This is when class starts with an introduction and an agreement for this space to be a safe one to learn, teach, and be vulnerable in. What’s said in class, stays in class, unless you are at imminent risk of harming yourself or others. Now that a safe learning space has been created, we go through some objectives.
We Cover All This
In an Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED hybrid class the topics are:
Recognizing emergencies and deciding to act
Calling or texting 911 (Did you know you could text 911 now?)
How to Perform Adult CPR
How to Perform Child CPR
How Infant CPR is Different
Shocking Techniques with Adult and Pediatric AEDs
Back Blows and Abdominal Thrusts for Conscious Adults, Children, and Infants
Unconscious Choking Humans
EpiPen Use
When to Use an Asthma Inhaler
How to Chill During Environmental Emergencies
Why Breathe to the Beat is the Best
Here’s where it gets good!
Since I have over 20 years of experience working in early education, I sprinkle in some hacks and fast facts according to the skill we are chatting about. An example would be to put a pair of gloves in your pocket when reporting for work. This way when a child has a bloody nose (which children tend to have from bumping into objects, falling, or getting nosebleeds because of the weather), you can put a glove on and squeeze the nose faster than your co-worker who is trying to locate your first aid kit.
We play certain songs on our Spotify playlist during CPR scenarios. We do this for several reasons. (1) Music and memory have a strong connection in our brains, (2) It helps us keep correct pace for effective CPR compressions (100-120 beats per minute), and (3) It allows us to have some fun while learning serious, lifesaving lessons.
Something special starts to happen during these classes. Since you all bring your own experience and life learning, participants share their first-hand knowledge with different topics. This is the most valuable part of the class where participants learn from each other and the class is set apart from the rest. Each class is unique and special due to your participation!
I’m Not Sharing! Okay, Cool
Whoa, whoa! Now you’ve lost me. Don’t call on me!
Sometimes people do not feel like sharing. That’s absolutely fine. I want everyone to feel comfortable to share only if they wish. In order to pass you need to be able to count to 30 out loud, tell another participant to “Call 911 and get me the first aid kit and AED and come back to me” out loud, and demonstrate the skills during scenario practice.
Class is Done. Now What?
Class is over. Twenty-four hours after the invoice is paid, all participants get a digital email from Salesforce (American Red Cross) containing their digital certificate. I send the Director a PDF of participants’ certificates for their files.
Now your staff is certified!
Each teacher will get a thank you email from me containing links for Google and Yelp Reviews if they so choose.
Now Get in Touch!
If this sounds great to you, get in touch with me by email or text: 617-764-9332 and let’s chat about your training needs!
