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StarGuard 5th Edition With Web Resource

StarGuard 5th Edition With Web Resource

Best Practices for Lifeguards

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$87.95 CAD


 

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    StarGuard: Best Practices for Lifeguards, Fifth Edition, assists lifeguard candidates in preventing, recognizing, and responding to water emergencies in pool, waterpark, and waterfront settings.

    Combined with hands-on, scenario-based training sessions taught by authorized StarGuard instructors, the updated text and accompanying web resource teach the essentials of lifeguarding: prevention, surveillance, response and rescue, emergency care, and workplace safety and professionalism.

    StarGuard: Best Practices for Lifeguards provides specific strategies for decision making. With this authoritative yet accessible guide you will learn the following:

    • Strategies for reducing risk at recreational aquatic venues

    • Essential skills for response and rescue, including how to perform land-based assists and water-based rescues

    • How to recognize indicators of and critical events that can lead to distress and drowning

    • Emergency care skills in the event of a drowning, injury, or illness, including suspected spinal injuries

    • Techniques for adapting lifesaving skills for special situations, such as single-guard facilities, inflatable play structures, special events, or lifeguarding individuals with disabilities

    • Proper techniques for dealing with bodily fluids and fecal contaminations to reduce the risk of recreational water illness

    The updated fifth edition contains the latest research on best practices in lifeguarding and emergency care, including the most current CPR/AED first aid content based on international guidelines.

    From surveillance to prevention and emergency care, StarGuard: Best Practices for Lifeguards, Fifth Edition, covers all aspects of lifeguarding in an easy-to-understand format. Together, the text, online resource, and hands-on training course prepare lifeguards with the decision-making, emergency response, and first aid skills necessary for preventing water emergencies and saving lives.

    Additionally, StarGuard: Best Practices for Lifeguards provides the foundation for the operational policies, procedures, and guidance delivered through the StarGuard Elite complete aquatic safety and risk management system available to aquatic facilities.

    Audience

    Textbook for lifeguards studying to achieve Starfish Aquatics Institute lifeguard certification. Foundational resource for other lifeguard training programs before in-water training occurs. Reference for individuals seeking lifeguarding certification and essential information on the responsibilities and skill sets of lifeguards.

    Part I Prevention Strategy

    Chapter 1 Foundation of Best Practices

    Chapter 2 Reducing Risks at an Aquatic Facility

    Chapter 3 Managing Bodily Fluids and Fecal Matter Contamination

    Part II Surveillance

    Chapter 4 Recognizing Distress and Drowning

    Chapter 5 Looking for Distress and Drowning

    Part III Response and Rescue

    Chapter 6 Deciding to Act and Emergency Response

    Chapter 7 Assists and Rescues

    Part IV Emergency Care

    Chapter 8 Managing Suspected Spinal Injuries

    Chapter 9 Basic First Aid

    Chapter 10 CPR for Professional Rescuers

    Chapter 11 Rescue Breathing and CPR for Unresponsive Drowning Persons

    Part V Workplace Environment

    Chapter 12 Facilitating Workplace Safety

    Chapter 13 Meeting Workplace Expectations

    Chapter 14 Considering Site- and Situation-Specific Circumstances

    Chapter 15 Lifeguarding at Waterparks and Similar Spaces

    Chapter 16 Lifeguarding at Nonsurf Waterfronts

    Jill White founded the Starfish Aquatics Institute (SAI) in 1999 and cofounded StarGuard Elite in 2016 with the mission to reduce drowning and save lives. She has consistently been named one of the Top 25 Most Influential People in Aquatics by Aquatics International magazine and has been the recipient of the prestigious Al Turner Memorial Commitment to Excellence Award from the World Waterpark Association. In the fall of 2014, White was inducted into the World Waterpark Hall of Fame.

    She has authored textbooks on lifeguarding, lifeguarding instruction, water safety, and swim instruction and served as the aquatic education division director for Human Kinetics. She has firsthand experience in training, supervising, and managing lifeguards and has personally taught thousands of lifeguards and hundreds of lifeguarding instructors. White has collaborated in drowning prevention and standards development initiatives and is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences.

    White lives in Savannah, Georgia.