SGE lifeguarding study guide Exam Questions with Correct Answers| Latest
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Includes: Prevention Quiz (1-10) Surveillance Quiz (11-17) Response and Rescue (18-25)
Emergency Care Exam (26-54) Workplace Expectations Quiz (55-61)
Q. How should you assess normal breathing for someone who is unresponsive? Quickly look
at the face and chest for movement indicating the person is breathing
Q. You are attending to a responsive teenager injured after she fell from the diving board
ladder. She has sharp pain and swelling in her right leg, and it looks broken. After activating
EMS, what should you do next? Manually stabilize her injured leg
Q. You are attending to a co-worker who collapsed while working in the hot sun. He is acting
confused, and his skin is hot and sweaty. After activating EMS, what should you do next?
Move the individual from the environment, remove all excess clothing, limit exertion, and
activate EMS
Q. You are caring for a girl who has been stung by a wasp and is severely allergic to it. She has
an epinephrine auto-injector (epi-pen) but is having difficulty using it. She is coughing and her
lip and face appear swollen. What should you do? Help her use the device or administer it
for her if she is unable
Q. What is the difference between performing CPR for a person who has sudden cardiac arrest
on land, and performing CPR for a drowning person? Drowning follows the Airway,
Breathing, Compressions (ABC) sequence; Sudden Cardiac Arrest follows the Compressions,
Airway, Breathing (CAB) sequence
Q. You are attending to a teenager whose lips and face are swelling quickly from an allergic
reaction to a bee sting. She has her epinephrine auto-injector (Epi-pen). What should you do
first? Assist her in self-administering the epinephrine
, Q. When should you apply the backboard chest strap? First
Q. The spinal injury protocol you use at your facility should depend upon the type of backboard,
the type of deck/gutters and recommendation of your responding EMS agency. True
Q. Some mechanisms of forceful injury in an aquatic environment that could cause trauma to
the head, neck, or spine include ALL of the following:
-hitting the bottom head first (pool or shoreline)
-forcefully hitting the head on the pool wall or edge or the end of a slide
-swimming laps in a lane without others
-forceful contact with another person or hard object False
Q. What is the primary objective for managing the rescue of an unresponsive drowning person?
Begin rescue breathing as quickly as possible
Q. A woman is resting on a bench after an aquatic fitness therapy class. Her friend notices that
her speech has suddenly become difficult to understand. Her friend asks her to smile, and the
smile is uneven; when asked to raise her arms, the woman's right arm is weak and numb and
cannot be lifted. What do these signs and symptoms suggest may be happening to this woman
Stroke
Q. What should the primary goal of in-service training be? Learn how to better apply and
use site-specific surveillance, equipment, and the EAP
Q. All of the following behaviors create the professional image others have of you: -How you
act, talk, dress, perform your duties, and relation to others
-Your posture, and attentiveness
Update Graded A+
Includes: Prevention Quiz (1-10) Surveillance Quiz (11-17) Response and Rescue (18-25)
Emergency Care Exam (26-54) Workplace Expectations Quiz (55-61)
Q. How should you assess normal breathing for someone who is unresponsive? Quickly look
at the face and chest for movement indicating the person is breathing
Q. You are attending to a responsive teenager injured after she fell from the diving board
ladder. She has sharp pain and swelling in her right leg, and it looks broken. After activating
EMS, what should you do next? Manually stabilize her injured leg
Q. You are attending to a co-worker who collapsed while working in the hot sun. He is acting
confused, and his skin is hot and sweaty. After activating EMS, what should you do next?
Move the individual from the environment, remove all excess clothing, limit exertion, and
activate EMS
Q. You are caring for a girl who has been stung by a wasp and is severely allergic to it. She has
an epinephrine auto-injector (epi-pen) but is having difficulty using it. She is coughing and her
lip and face appear swollen. What should you do? Help her use the device or administer it
for her if she is unable
Q. What is the difference between performing CPR for a person who has sudden cardiac arrest
on land, and performing CPR for a drowning person? Drowning follows the Airway,
Breathing, Compressions (ABC) sequence; Sudden Cardiac Arrest follows the Compressions,
Airway, Breathing (CAB) sequence
Q. You are attending to a teenager whose lips and face are swelling quickly from an allergic
reaction to a bee sting. She has her epinephrine auto-injector (Epi-pen). What should you do
first? Assist her in self-administering the epinephrine
, Q. When should you apply the backboard chest strap? First
Q. The spinal injury protocol you use at your facility should depend upon the type of backboard,
the type of deck/gutters and recommendation of your responding EMS agency. True
Q. Some mechanisms of forceful injury in an aquatic environment that could cause trauma to
the head, neck, or spine include ALL of the following:
-hitting the bottom head first (pool or shoreline)
-forcefully hitting the head on the pool wall or edge or the end of a slide
-swimming laps in a lane without others
-forceful contact with another person or hard object False
Q. What is the primary objective for managing the rescue of an unresponsive drowning person?
Begin rescue breathing as quickly as possible
Q. A woman is resting on a bench after an aquatic fitness therapy class. Her friend notices that
her speech has suddenly become difficult to understand. Her friend asks her to smile, and the
smile is uneven; when asked to raise her arms, the woman's right arm is weak and numb and
cannot be lifted. What do these signs and symptoms suggest may be happening to this woman
Stroke
Q. What should the primary goal of in-service training be? Learn how to better apply and
use site-specific surveillance, equipment, and the EAP
Q. All of the following behaviors create the professional image others have of you: -How you
act, talk, dress, perform your duties, and relation to others
-Your posture, and attentiveness
