BLS Skill Sheets

BLS Skills

Basic Life Support Skill Checklist Sheets for Canadian Red Cross BLS Instructors in Kelowna, BC.

One of the first steps towards becoming a Canadian Red Cross Basic Life Support Instructor, is demonstrating your ability to perform all the relevant Basic Life Support skills, without coaching or correction, to a Canadian Red Cross EMR Instructor-Trainer (EMRIT) or a Canadian Red Cross Basic Life Support Instructor with the Teaching Experience Supervisor (TES) accreditation.

Listed and linked below, are the most current Canadian Red Cross Basic Life Support Skill Checklist Sheets which collectively outline all the skills, including the specific steps required to perform each skill, you will need to demonstrate during your Skills Assessment.

It is strongly recommended that you download and review all the Skills Checklists well in advance of your scheduled Skills Assessment session, to ensure that you arrive fully prepared to be successful.

Canadian Red Cross
Basic Life Support Skill Sheets

1. Assisted Ventilations - Adult/Child/Infant
2. Using a Bag-Valve-Mask (BVM) - Adult/Child/Infant
3. Cardiopulmonary Rescuscitation (CPR) - Adult/Child/Infant/Neonate
4. Using a Defibrillator
5. Foreign-Body Airway Obstruction: Responsive Child or Adult
6. Foreign-Body Airway Obstruction: Responsive Infant
7. Unresponsive Foreign-Body Airway Obstruction
8. Insertion of an Oropharyngeal Airway (OPA)
9. Insertion of a Nasopharyngeal Airway (NPA)
10. Oxygen Therapy - Set-Up and Delivery
11. Pulse Assessment - Adult/Child/Infant
12. Pulse Oximetry
13. Donning and Doffing PPE
14. Using a Resuscitation Mask
15. Scene and Primary Assessment
16. Suctioning

                                                                                                                         

How to Access & Download the Basic Life Support Skill Sheets

Download Instructions

1. Login to your MyRC Profile
   (click here for instructions to activate your MyRC Profile, if you haven't already done so)
2. Select "Tools" >> "Online Tools"
3. Select "Boulevard" from the Online Tools page menu
   (click here for instructions to access and utilize the Instructor Boulevard, if you haven't already done so)
4. Select "Resources" >> "Documents" from the Boulevard menu
5. Type the name of a specific Skill Sheet in the "Search..." box
6. Download each Skill Sheet as located