RED CROSS UPDATED EXAM SCRIPT QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Our vision - ✔✔Leading humanitarian organization through which people voluntarily
demonstrate their caring for others in need
✔✔Our values - ✔✔Humanitarian values: as expressed in our fundamental principles
Respect, dignity, and care for one another within and outside the Canadian Red Cross
Integrity, accountability, effectiveness, and transparency
✔✔Our volunteers - ✔✔More than 25000 volunteers across the country
✔✔T or F. Children should not fall for help in an emergency: a trusted adult should
always do this for them - ✔✔False
✔✔Responding to emergencies - ✔✔Have a first aid kit and make sure it has all the
items you may need, such as thermometer, adhesive tape, adhesive bandages, pocket
mask, face shield, scissors, safety pins, sterilize gauze, emergency telephone numbers
✔✔T or F. You should keep important information about yourself and your family in a
handy place, including information such as your address and everyone's date of birth,
health card numbers, medical conditions, allergies, and prescriptions and dosages -
✔✔True
✔✔T or F. You should post the numbers for the police, fire department, emergency
medical services (EMS), and poison control centre near every phone in your home and
save these numbers in your mobile phones contracts list - ✔✔True
✔✔T or F. You should install smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and test them
regularly - ✔✔True
✔✔T or F. If you have a 6m-hour kit, you shouldn't need to also prepare a grab-and-go
kit - ✔✔False
✔✔T or F. As long as you have a first aid kit stored at home, and everyone in the family
knows where to find it, you shouldn't need to have another one stored elsewhere -
✔✔False. You should keep first aid kits handy in your home, car, and workplace.
✔✔T or F. Your emergency escape plan should include two meeting places- one
outside the home to use in case of fire and one outside the neighbourhood to use in
case you cannot return home after a disaster - ✔✔True
, ✔✔T or F. You should review and practice the first aid skills that you learn in this course
so that you will have the confidence and knowledge to respond in an emergency -
✔✔True
✔✔Signs of Emergency - ✔✔Strange sights, sounds, odors, actions, behaviors can all
be signs of an emergency.
✔✔4 common reasons why people don't want to get involved in an emergency - ✔✔The
bystander effect: "someone else will look after her"
Unpleasant injuries or illnesses: "that makes me feel sick!"
Catching a disease: "i don't want to get sick!"
Doing something wrong/ causing more harm: "what if I make him worse?"
✔✔Laws to protect you in case of an emergency - ✔✔Good Samaritan laws: requires
you to use common sense and to give only the type of emergency care that is within
your training
"reasonable and prudent person"
✔✔A prudent person would - ✔✔- move a person only if their life was in danger
- ask for consent
- call 911
- continue to care until more highly trained person take over
✔✔Good Samaritan laws in Quebec - ✔✔You need to stop and provide assistance in
an emergency, at a minimum call 911
✔✔Getting permission to help - ✔✔Get the permission before giving care
-baby or child ( ask their parent, guardian, caregiver)
-baby or child alone (you have the permission) (implied consent)
✔✔Difficult to get permission, or denied - ✔✔- you don't speak the same language (find
a translator person, use your cellphone)
-the person is unresponsive, confused, has mental impairment (implied consent)
-the person refuses care (respect the person's decisions)
✔✔Every adult in Canada has - ✔✔A legal duty to report child abuse or neglect, even if
it is not confirmed
✔✔The Chain of Survival Behaviours - ✔✔Prevent and prepare, early recognition, first
aid/access help, self-recovery/early medical care.
✔✔As a First Aider, you need to: - ✔✔Recognize the emergency, protect yourself, act
according to your skills, knowledge, and comfort level
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Our vision - ✔✔Leading humanitarian organization through which people voluntarily
demonstrate their caring for others in need
✔✔Our values - ✔✔Humanitarian values: as expressed in our fundamental principles
Respect, dignity, and care for one another within and outside the Canadian Red Cross
Integrity, accountability, effectiveness, and transparency
✔✔Our volunteers - ✔✔More than 25000 volunteers across the country
✔✔T or F. Children should not fall for help in an emergency: a trusted adult should
always do this for them - ✔✔False
✔✔Responding to emergencies - ✔✔Have a first aid kit and make sure it has all the
items you may need, such as thermometer, adhesive tape, adhesive bandages, pocket
mask, face shield, scissors, safety pins, sterilize gauze, emergency telephone numbers
✔✔T or F. You should keep important information about yourself and your family in a
handy place, including information such as your address and everyone's date of birth,
health card numbers, medical conditions, allergies, and prescriptions and dosages -
✔✔True
✔✔T or F. You should post the numbers for the police, fire department, emergency
medical services (EMS), and poison control centre near every phone in your home and
save these numbers in your mobile phones contracts list - ✔✔True
✔✔T or F. You should install smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and test them
regularly - ✔✔True
✔✔T or F. If you have a 6m-hour kit, you shouldn't need to also prepare a grab-and-go
kit - ✔✔False
✔✔T or F. As long as you have a first aid kit stored at home, and everyone in the family
knows where to find it, you shouldn't need to have another one stored elsewhere -
✔✔False. You should keep first aid kits handy in your home, car, and workplace.
✔✔T or F. Your emergency escape plan should include two meeting places- one
outside the home to use in case of fire and one outside the neighbourhood to use in
case you cannot return home after a disaster - ✔✔True
, ✔✔T or F. You should review and practice the first aid skills that you learn in this course
so that you will have the confidence and knowledge to respond in an emergency -
✔✔True
✔✔Signs of Emergency - ✔✔Strange sights, sounds, odors, actions, behaviors can all
be signs of an emergency.
✔✔4 common reasons why people don't want to get involved in an emergency - ✔✔The
bystander effect: "someone else will look after her"
Unpleasant injuries or illnesses: "that makes me feel sick!"
Catching a disease: "i don't want to get sick!"
Doing something wrong/ causing more harm: "what if I make him worse?"
✔✔Laws to protect you in case of an emergency - ✔✔Good Samaritan laws: requires
you to use common sense and to give only the type of emergency care that is within
your training
"reasonable and prudent person"
✔✔A prudent person would - ✔✔- move a person only if their life was in danger
- ask for consent
- call 911
- continue to care until more highly trained person take over
✔✔Good Samaritan laws in Quebec - ✔✔You need to stop and provide assistance in
an emergency, at a minimum call 911
✔✔Getting permission to help - ✔✔Get the permission before giving care
-baby or child ( ask their parent, guardian, caregiver)
-baby or child alone (you have the permission) (implied consent)
✔✔Difficult to get permission, or denied - ✔✔- you don't speak the same language (find
a translator person, use your cellphone)
-the person is unresponsive, confused, has mental impairment (implied consent)
-the person refuses care (respect the person's decisions)
✔✔Every adult in Canada has - ✔✔A legal duty to report child abuse or neglect, even if
it is not confirmed
✔✔The Chain of Survival Behaviours - ✔✔Prevent and prepare, early recognition, first
aid/access help, self-recovery/early medical care.
✔✔As a First Aider, you need to: - ✔✔Recognize the emergency, protect yourself, act
according to your skills, knowledge, and comfort level
