Why become an instructor at the Canadian Red Cross?
Le 2021-07-18
A Canadian Red Cross instructor is the person who provides the various first aid training in partnership with the organization. Why practice this profession and what must be done to be able to practice it?
Above all, the profession of instructor at the Canadian Red Cross is a vocation. Indeed, it is for those who like to pass their know-how on to others so that they can apply it to save lives.
We also know that several hundred thousand people a year enroll in first aid courses in Canada. Competent professional instructors, therefore, are needed to train, guide and supervise them properly.
While it is not always a very easy job, the satisfaction of helping fellow citizens learn the techniques necessary to optimize the chances of survival of those around them in the event of an accident is a good motivation to become an instructor with the Canadian Red Cross.
An instructor must himself follow a sequence of training before being able to practice the profession. Indeed, the instructor must first master the techniques of first aid and CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) to apply, as well as the use of different equipment such as pocket masks, mannequins or even defibrillators in order to be able to impart this knowledge to others.
Then you have to make sure that your students can effectively assimilate the training. To do this, the instructor must learn to properly develop and organize lessons and to communicate effectively. It is only after that that these skills as a first aid instructor or trainer with the Canadian Red Cross are recognized.
You can find many training options to become an instructor with the Canadian Red Cross on the Web. But at Impact Santé+ we offer several quality options that we will briefly present below.
Professional worker instructor training: to be able to provide courses in advanced first aid, life-saving resuscitation, oxygen therapy, for first responders or even emergency medical responders.
First aid and CPR instructor training: to be able to give courses in emergency and general first aid, CPR and AED.
Internship supervisor training: to be able to supervise and help first aid instructors or youth workers in internships to develop their skills properly.
Wilderness and Remote Environment Instructor: for vacations or trips to remote communities.
We note that there are prerequisites to be able to take these courses. In the majority of cases, the prerequisites are simply to have already passed the training you wish to teach and to have successfully completed an internship.
You will find all the necessary information on this subject as well as other important information such as the cost of training, the topics covered, and the timetables on our site.
We also remind you that the first aid instructor’s certificate with the Canadian Red Cross must be renewed regularly to ensure that candidates are still fit to practice their profession correctly. At Impact Santé+, renewal training is entirely online and the participant must have the necessary materials. We therefore invite you to visit our site without further delay to discover our training offers, our services, and the various training equipment that we are selling in the store.
