Cub First Aid and Health Badge

Badge requirements

First Aid and Health Cub Interest Badge

(You must have passed your 10th birthday before you start this badge)

1. Show that you clearly understand:
   • The limitations of your knowledge as a First Aider;
   • The importance of summoning adult help in the case of accidents.
   • The need to make sure that the area is safe for you, before you help someone else.
   • How to activate the Emergency Medical Services in your neighbourhood; including emergency phone numbers from a cell phone and a landline.
   • Why it is important to use rubber gloves or plastic bags when dealing with open wounds.
   • Be able to identify the items in a first aid kit and give an example of what you can use them for.
   • Show where the first aid kit can be found in the Scout hall/Pack meeting place.
   • Explain what CPR is and when it is used.
     
     
2. Do the following:
   • Demonstrate how to control bleeding by direct pressure with the finger or hand using rubber gloves or plastic bags.
   • Demonstrate how to stop a nose bleed.
   • Demonstrate what to do if your clothes or another person's clothes catch fire.
   • Demonstrate how to use your scarf for an arm sling and how to use it to make a bandage.
   • Demonstrate how to put someone who is unconscious/not responding, but is breathing, in the recovery position.
   • Demonstrate how to help someone who has burned their hand (e.g. on a kettle of water or a hobo-stove).
   • Explain two dangers to health of each of the following: smoking, drinking alcohol.

See also

• Cub Interest Badges

• Cub Aptitude Challenge - First Aid