LIFEGUARD FINAL EXAM NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 170 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS
To prevent drowning and other injuries from occurring at your aquatic facility - (answer) Primary
responsibility
1. Monitoring activities in and near the water through patron surveillance, 2.preventing injuries by
minimizing or illuminating hazardous situations or behaviors, 3. enforcing rules and regulations,
4.recognizing in responding quickly to all emergencies 5.working as a team with other lifeguards facility
staff and supervisors - (answer) Primary responsibilities include
1.Testing pool water 2.assisting patrons 3.cleaning - (answer) Secondary responsibilities include
You have the legal responsibility to act in an emergency - (answer) Legal considerations duty to act
You expect to meet a minimum standard of care these include communication to prevent injuries
recognition of someone in need of care attempt to rescue those who need assistance and provide
emergency care to your level of training - (answer) Legal considerations standard of care
When a person is injured or suffers additional horn because lifeguards failed to follow the standard of
care or fail to act at all - (answer) Legal consideration negligence
Once care is initiated care must continue until someone with equal or greater training arrives and takes
over - (answer) Legal considerations abandonment
All information received this confidential to the patient/victim - (answer) Legal considerations
confidentiality
Properly document all injuries and incidents - (answer) Legal considerations documentation
You must ask permission to provide care do this state your name level of training ask to help, explain
what you plan to do. if the person is unable to respond or unconscious consent is implied. if it is a child
ask parental permission if a parent is not immediately available consent is implied - (answer) Legal
consideration consent
, LIFEGUARD FINAL EXAM NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 170 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS
If a victim refuses care after you explain why you think it's necessary document if you deem situation
potentially life-threatening call EMS to evaluate - (answer) Legal consideration refusal of care
Clean debris's from pool water raise CL2 level and maintain for 25 minutes - (answer) Fecal and Vomit
Clear the pool and outside area and keep clothes for 30 minutes after last sighting - (answer) When
lightning is sited
No your facility rules and enforce that it is the faculties responsibility to endure all that policies rules
procedures and and emerand emergency action plans are in place - (answer) Rules and regulations
Recognition of dangerous behaviors bobbing, crawling hand over hand, using flotation devices -
(answer) Surveillance includes
Can't keep their face out of the water can call for help horizontal vertical or diagonal position floating
sculling or treading water - (answer) Distressed swimmer
Can I call for help works to keep face above water arms to the side or in front pressing down for support
can struggle underwater one submerged will eventually lose consciousness and stop moving - (answer)
Active drowning victim
Maybe floating FaceTime face up at or near the surface or sink to the bottom maybe limp of slight
convulsive type movements no locomotion in no breathing - (answer) Passive drowning victim
A visual technique for watching patrons in the water - (answer) Effective scanning
If an active active around as well on duty is probably due to one or more of the following causes
1. Recognition failure to recognize a swimmers in destress
2. Distraction anything that takes your focus off the patron surveillance 3. Intrusion when secondary
duties intrude on your primary responsibility of patron surveillance - (answer) RID factor
DETAILED ANSWERS
To prevent drowning and other injuries from occurring at your aquatic facility - (answer) Primary
responsibility
1. Monitoring activities in and near the water through patron surveillance, 2.preventing injuries by
minimizing or illuminating hazardous situations or behaviors, 3. enforcing rules and regulations,
4.recognizing in responding quickly to all emergencies 5.working as a team with other lifeguards facility
staff and supervisors - (answer) Primary responsibilities include
1.Testing pool water 2.assisting patrons 3.cleaning - (answer) Secondary responsibilities include
You have the legal responsibility to act in an emergency - (answer) Legal considerations duty to act
You expect to meet a minimum standard of care these include communication to prevent injuries
recognition of someone in need of care attempt to rescue those who need assistance and provide
emergency care to your level of training - (answer) Legal considerations standard of care
When a person is injured or suffers additional horn because lifeguards failed to follow the standard of
care or fail to act at all - (answer) Legal consideration negligence
Once care is initiated care must continue until someone with equal or greater training arrives and takes
over - (answer) Legal considerations abandonment
All information received this confidential to the patient/victim - (answer) Legal considerations
confidentiality
Properly document all injuries and incidents - (answer) Legal considerations documentation
You must ask permission to provide care do this state your name level of training ask to help, explain
what you plan to do. if the person is unable to respond or unconscious consent is implied. if it is a child
ask parental permission if a parent is not immediately available consent is implied - (answer) Legal
consideration consent
, LIFEGUARD FINAL EXAM NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 170 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS
If a victim refuses care after you explain why you think it's necessary document if you deem situation
potentially life-threatening call EMS to evaluate - (answer) Legal consideration refusal of care
Clean debris's from pool water raise CL2 level and maintain for 25 minutes - (answer) Fecal and Vomit
Clear the pool and outside area and keep clothes for 30 minutes after last sighting - (answer) When
lightning is sited
No your facility rules and enforce that it is the faculties responsibility to endure all that policies rules
procedures and and emerand emergency action plans are in place - (answer) Rules and regulations
Recognition of dangerous behaviors bobbing, crawling hand over hand, using flotation devices -
(answer) Surveillance includes
Can't keep their face out of the water can call for help horizontal vertical or diagonal position floating
sculling or treading water - (answer) Distressed swimmer
Can I call for help works to keep face above water arms to the side or in front pressing down for support
can struggle underwater one submerged will eventually lose consciousness and stop moving - (answer)
Active drowning victim
Maybe floating FaceTime face up at or near the surface or sink to the bottom maybe limp of slight
convulsive type movements no locomotion in no breathing - (answer) Passive drowning victim
A visual technique for watching patrons in the water - (answer) Effective scanning
If an active active around as well on duty is probably due to one or more of the following causes
1. Recognition failure to recognize a swimmers in destress
2. Distraction anything that takes your focus off the patron surveillance 3. Intrusion when secondary
duties intrude on your primary responsibility of patron surveillance - (answer) RID factor
