Scouts BSA Troop 222 for Girls

Tag: First Aid

  • More First Aid, Still No Emergency — but we are ready

    If she’s hurt, we can carry her out!

    It took some time to get all the First Aid requirements finished, but after a couple of meetings, we’ve looked at them all. (We also practiced here.) When new scouts join, we hope that we can then teach them these techniques through the EDGE method. One thing for sure — we’ll probably remember these by how much fun we had learning and practicing. Remember when we carried each other in blankets? Or Mr. Sherrill’s “broken” arm?

    Taaa-daa! Mr. Sherrill’s arm is in a sling, and he is ready to get treatment.

    We laughed a lot, but we learn and remember better when we have fun. Scouting is “fun with a purpose,” and we definitely had fun doing this stuff. But did Scoutmaster Tiffany trust those girls who were going to carry her to safety after her fake broken leg?

    Safe carrying!

    Are you working on your First Aid merit badge? Scoutsmarts offers a guide to that Eagle-required merit badge, which is a good starting point for a lot of others (like Emergency Preparedness or Lifesaving). If you missed any of the requirements or want a refresher, Scouting Life magazine has videos and more to help, found here.

  • First Aid without the emergency

    First Aid without the emergency

    We had a lot to deal with, what with Scoutmasters Jenny, Mary and Annie’s (fake) injuries, but we learned some first aid to help them. Fake animals bit them. We had to flush things out of our eyes, and treated our scoutmasters’ fake burns and learned how to get a fish hook out of their skin. (We didn’t harm any scoutmasters in these practice scenarios.)

    Girl with water bottle gently drops water on another girl's face.
    Practicing flushing an object out of someone’s eye is best done when there’s not a real emergency.

    From our Scribe, Claire:

    “We learned about First Aid and demonstrated on Annie, Mary, and Jenny. We learned about how to get objects out of the eye, heal a bite from a warm-blooded animal, how to treat puncture wounds, and we also learned how to deal with second and third degree burns.”

    Two girls study the scout Handbook
    The Scouts BSA Handbook for Girls has all the instructions for First Aid rank advancement requirements.

    We’ll work on more first aid requirements in another meeting.

    Several scouts are taking the First Aid merit badge at summer camp. We’re covering many prerequisites for this badge, which are also required for rank advancement, in these sessions. (For the First Aid merit badge workbook, click here.)

    Did we mention that Scoutmaster Annie got a tick? This one wasn’t a fake scenario, but Scoutmaster Mary demonstrated how to remove it for all of us to see. That was a bit much for some of us.

    (Do you still need to turn in your health form? Go to our Resources page to download the forms.)