All About First Aid

28/05/2025

I'm offering First Aid courses: Emergency, Basic, Standard, Intermediate, and Recertification. These are blended courses that combine online learning with hands-on, in-person sessions. Please share if you know someone who might be interested!

14/05/2025

27/04/2025

Get certified this May or June! 🩺🚑
First Aid + CPR training (Blended Online + In-Person).
Red Cross Certification — valid for 3 years.
📍 Location: Holiday Inn Express - Stellarton
📅 Multiple Dates Available
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08/02/2022

“It was in the middle of winter, the temperature was below freezing, and the night was coming on.” Unexpectedly getting caught in the cold can have serious consequences. Hypothermia will occur when the body’s core temperature drops below 98°. Shivering is the first sign that the body is trying to rewarm itself. As the body’s core temperature drops further, judgement, motor skills, and speech become impaired. Preventing the loss of body heat by getting out of wet clothing and warming the body is a priority. Learn how to create a hypothermia wrap by enrolling in a Red Cross first aid course. Contact All About First Aid for the next class.

04/02/2022

Snowy days can be fun, getting the opportunity to bundle up and enjoy what the winter has to offer. Have you heard the Scandinavian saying: “There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes?” But even with the best planning, frostbite can occur. Frostbite is a superficial injury caused by freezing of the skin. Fingers, toes, nose, ears, cheek, and chin are commonly affected. The affected area can range from stinging to complete loss of feeling. The skin can be white and hard when touched. To care for frostbite, warm the affected area with the person’s body heat or heated water. (38°- 40°C.) Do not break any blisters, and protect the injured area with a loose sterile dressing. The individual should seek medical attention. Take a Red Cross first aid course for more information on cold-related illnesses and other first-aid topics. Contact All About First Aid for the next available first aid course.

03/11/2021

Tick Talk: “Those little buggers!” They like to hang onto tall grass and climb on any passerby that brushes against them. There are ways of avoiding ticks from latching on and possibly transmitting any disease. Performing self checks is one method. Check between joints (behind the knees, elbows, armpits), behind your ears and anywhere covered in hair (behind the neck) as ticks love warm, dark places. If you find a tick crawling on you it can be killed by submerging it in rubbing alcohol. If you find one embedded it can be removed with tweezers. Use clean, fine-tipped tweezers to grasp the tick as close to the skin's surface as possible. Pull upward with steady, even pressure. After removing the tick, thoroughly clean the bite area and your hands with soap and water. In most cases, the tick must be attached for 36 to 48 hours or more before the Lyme disease bacterium can be transmitted. A tell tale sign of infection is a red rash that is clear in the middle, looking like a bulls-eye pattern. Did you know that now in Nova Scotia if you have a tick bite you can go to a pharmacist and they can do an assessment and determine whether a preventative antibiotic is needed.

01/11/2021

“Those little buggers. Found one on me today!” Until the weather consistently falls below 4º C. they will be around. Even though I’m not out in the woods this time of the year I could have picked it up in the backyard. Ticks have been around Nova Scotia for many years and the ones that can give us problems, Lyme disease, since the late 90”s. Nova Scotia has the unfortunate distinction of having the most incidences of Lyme disease in Canada. Recently there has been a population explosion and increased occurrences of Lyme disease in all parts of the province. There are several kinds of ticks, but only the blacklegged tick, sometimes called deer tick, carries the bacteria and virus that cause tick-borne diseases.

14/04/2021

I have just added a Red Cross emergency and standard first aid course for May 8 and 9.

16/04/2020

Even though we are focused on self isolation accidents in and around the home can still occur.

What if your child comes to you with a bleeding nose. What do you do? Besides providing TLC, and if there is no obvious deformity caused by an injury, stop the bleeding by having your child sit down, lean their head slightly forward, and pinch the nostrils for 10 - 15 minutes. Seek medical attention if the bleeding continues for longer than 15 minutes, or if the bleeding was the result of a head injury.