Instructor Guide - Professional Responder Programs

Professional Responder Instructor Manual
Instructor Guide

The Canadian Red Cross Instructor Guide for Professional Responder Programs is a 167 page, red and white resource manual included with the printed materials for participants in Canadian Red Cross Professional Responder Instructor courses, including Canadian Red Cross EMR Instructor courses, and Canadian Red Cross First Responder Instructor courses in Kelowna and Vancouver, BC.

The "Instructor Guide - Professional Responder Programs" is used by Canadian Red Cross Emergency Medical Responder Instructors and First Responder Instructors when teaching the Canadian Red Cross Professional Responder Programs courses, including EMR courses, EMR Bridge courses, EMR Recertification courses, First Responder courses, First Responder Recertification courses, Marine Advanced First Aid courses, and Advanced First Aid courses.

The Instructor Guide - Professional Responder Programs provides Instructors with a basic overview of the essential content to be covered in each course, as well as guidelines pertaining to the administration and remediation of formal written evaluations, and practical scenario evaluations.

A printed copy of the Instructor Guide - Professional Responder Programs book is included with the course package materials for your Canadian Red Cross Professional Responder Instructor training.

Instructor Guide - Professional Responder contents:

  • Context for Canadian Red Cross First Aid Education
  • Translation of this Context within the Professional Responder Program
  • Introduction to this Guide
  • Lessons by Course
  • Application: Practice and Scenario Lessons - General Principles

  1. The Professional Responder
  2. Responding to the Call
  3. Infection Prevention and Control
  4. Anatomy and Physiology
  5. Scene Assessment
  6. Secondary Assessment
  7. Ongoing Assessment
  8. Application: Practice and Scenarios
  9. Airway Management and Respiratory Emergencies
  10. Application: Practice and Scenarios
  11. Circulatory Emergencies
  12. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
  13. Shock
  14. Hemorrhage and Soft Tissue Trauma
  15. Application: Practice and Scenarios
  16. Mid-Course Knowledge Evaluation
  17. Musculoskeletal Injuries
  18. Chest, Abdominal, and Pelvic Injuries
  19. Application: Practice and Scenarios
  20. Head and Spinal Injuries
  21. Acute and Chronic Illnesses
  22. Poisoning
  23. Application: Practice and Scenarios
  24. Environmental Illnesses
  25. Pregnancy, Labour, and Delivery
  26. Application: Practice and Scenarios
  27. Special Populations
  28. Crisis Intervention
  29. Reaching, Lifting, and Extricating Patients
  30. Application: Practice and Scenarios
  31. Pharmacology
  32. Marine Environment
  33. Workplace
  34. Written Knowledge Evaluation
  35. Practical Evaluation