This adventure will provide Webelos Scouts with an introduction to the skills and responsibilities of a first responder. Activities will cover essential personal safety and first-aid skills.

• Essential first-aid skills

• Essential personal safety skills

• Understanding of the role of the first responder in the local community

• A Scout is brave, courteous.

Complete requirement 1 and at least five others.

1. Explain what first aid is. Tell what you should do after an accident.

2. Show what to do for hurry cases of first aid: serious bleeding, heart attack or sudden cardiac arrest, stopped breathing, stroke, poisoning.

3. Show how to help a choking victim.

4. Show how to treat for shock.

5. Demonstrate how to treat at least five of the following:

A. Cuts and scratches

B. Burns and scalds

C. Sunburn

D. Blisters on the hand or foot

E. Tick bites

F. Bites and stings of other insects

G. Venomous snakebites

H. Nosebleed

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6. Put together a simple home first-aid kit. Explain what you included and how to use each item correctly.

7. Create and practice an emergency readiness plan for your home or den meeting place.

8. Visit with a first responder or health-care professional.

This adventure has several choices based on which activities you choose to do with your den. This den meeting plan, when followed as written, meets the requirements to earn this adventure. If you choose to make adjustments, be sure you complete at least the minimum requirements.

The den outing will take place first in this adventure, to provide context and inspiration for the other two meetings. Plan at least one month in advance for a den visit to an EMS station, fire department, emergency room, or other emergency first-aid service agency (requirement 8). Make sure to share with the service you are working with the requirements of the adventure and discuss how they can support them.

You will need to schedule the outing in advance. Work with families to plan transportation to and from the location. Make sure activity consent forms are distributed, signed, and collected.

See the appendix for optional den meeting activities, including openings, gatherings, and closings.