On Thursday night at SES, we completed our first aid course. Although the tests were supposed to be on the next Thursday, one of the instructors was going to be away then so we had to do the tests this Thursday. Anyway, first of all we learnt about bandaging, sprains, and stuff like that, then we did some practising. After the practising we were called into a separate room to be tested on CPR and first aid.
For the CPR you had to apply everything you’d learnt about checking for danger, checking for responses on the casualty, etc. You then had to do the actual CPR, which is 2 breaths and then 30 compressions.
After finishing that, I went on to the written test, which consisted of 10 multiple choice questions. The old test that they used to use contained 25 questions, I’m glad I didn’t do that one! I wasn’t sure of 1 or 2 questions so the instructor explained which was the correct choice.
Now that I’ve passed the testing I will eventually receive a certificate saying that I’ve done the testing. Every so often I will be notified that I need to renew the certificate to make sure that I still know how do first aid. Of course this won’t as hard as the actual course was 
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[tags]ses, cadets, first aid, course, yeppoon[/tags]
