{"id":290,"date":"2008-05-13T13:50:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T12:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=290"},"modified":"2008-05-13T13:50:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T12:50:26","slug":"im-a-first-aider-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a First Aider Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:614,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.scoutbase.org.uk\\\/support\\\/training\\\/firstaid.htm#Training&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20100728113934\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.scoutbase.org.uk:80\\\/support\\\/training\\\/firstaid.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 20:16:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 20:16:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:594,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Wood_Badge&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260101200205\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Wood_Badge&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 19:55:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 19:55:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">On Sunday, I completed the Scout&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoutbase.org.uk\/support\/training\/firstaid.htm#Training\" target=\"_blank\">First Aider First Response<\/a> course. It now means that in an emergency situation, I should know what to do!<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sick\" src=\"http:\/\/messenger.msn.com\/MMM2006-04-19_17.00\/Resource\/emoticons\/52_52.gif\"\/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">In Scouts it is now part of the five year warrant review. If you are not first aid trained, you do not get a warrant. Well, <em>technically, <\/em>that&#8217;s not quite true, as if you are on a forthcoming course and your warrant is being reviewed, then you get your warrant. It&#8217;s also a condition of getting your <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wood_Badge\" target=\"_blank\">Wood Badge.<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Of course the funny thing is that a first aid qualification lasts for three years, but a Scout Leader&#8217;s warrant is for five. So in your warranted period, you have to do two first aid courses!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">This isn&#8217;t a bad thing however. I&#8217;ve been a first aider at work three times (this is a 4 day course) and a first aider at first response level three times so far. Every time I&#8217;ve done a course, something changes! Apart from the changes it&#8217;s good to do refreshers as you do get &#8216;rusty&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">It&#8217;s only a fairly recent change to the &#8216;rules&#8217; that all Leaders <strong><u>must<\/u><\/strong> have some form of first aid training. I wonder if it&#8217;s the same in other countries? Anyone from the USA care to comment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, I completed the Scout&#8217;s First Aider First Response course. It now means that in an emergency situation, I should know what to do! In Scouts it is now part of the five year warrant review. If you are not first aid trained, you do not get a warrant. Well, technically, that&#8217;s not quite &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=290\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;m a First Aider Again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouts","tag-scouts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-4G","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}