American Red Cross
Lifeguarding Latest Update 2026
What will American Red Cross Lifeguarding class teach you? (pg. 2) - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Teach you skills needed to prevent and respond to aquatic
emergencies. Teach land and water rescue skills plus first aid and CPR
Primary Responsibilities of Lifeguards (pg. 2) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Monitor
activities in and near water, prevent injuries by minimalizing hazardous
situations, enforce facility rules, recognize and respond quickly,
administering first aid and CPR, work as a team with other facility
employees
,Secondary Responsibilities of Lifeguards (pg. 2-3) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔test
pool water chemistry, assisting patrons, cleaning/maintenance of pool area,
completing records and reports
(pg. 4) Professional Lifeguards SHOULD NOT - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Leave your
posted station or area while on duty, use mobile phones or other types of
communication while on duty, slouch in chair, participate in conversation
with other patrons or lifeguard staff, eat on stand, use alcohol or drugs (any
that could negatively impact your alertness)
F.I.N.D (pg. 6) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔F=Figure out the problem
I= Identify possible solutions
N= Name the pros and cons for each solution.
D= Decide which solution is best, then act on it
EAP (pg. 6) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Emergency Action Plan
Duty to Act (pg. 6) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔While on the job, you have legal
responsibility to act in an emergency
,Negligence (pg. 6) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔When a person receiving emergency
care has additional harm because lifeguards failed to follow the standard of
care
Consent (pg. 6) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔All people giving medical care MUST
obtain consent before helping an individual
Rescue Tube (pg. 13) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔45-54 inch vinyl, foam-filled tube
with an attached tow line and shoulder strap capable of keeping victims
afloat
Resuscitation Masks (pg. 13) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Transparent, flexible device
that creates a tight seal over the victims mouth and nose to allow you to
breathe air into a victim without making mouth-to-mouth contact.
Gloves (pg. 13) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Disposable (single-use) gloves are used
to protect employees that may be exposed to blood or other bodily fluids.
Backboards (pg. 13) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Standard piece of equipment used at
aquatics facilities to remove victims from water when they are unable to exit
the water on their own. Backboards are also used during head, neck, or
back injuries
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, PPE (pg. 14) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Personal Protective Equipment: specialized
clothing, equipment, and supplies used to prevent you from coming into
direct contact with a victims body fluids
BVM (pg. 14) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Bag-Valve-Mask Resuscitator: handheld
device attached to a resuscitation mask used to ventilate a victim in
respiratory arrest when performing CPR. BVM REQUIRES TWO
RESCUERS.
Oxygen Cylinder and Delivery Device (pg. 14) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Breathing
device used to administer emergency oxygen to a victim experiencing
breathing or cardiac emergency
AED (pg. 14) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Automated External Defibrillators: portable
electronic device that analyzes a victims heart rhythm and delivers
electrical shock to re-establich proper rhythm.
RWI (pg. 24) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Recreational Water Illness: earaches,
rashes, diarrhea that can cause illness in aquatics facility
Formed Stool Emergency (pg. 24) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Continue Operation
of Filtration System
2. pH must be below 7.5
Lifeguarding Latest Update 2026
What will American Red Cross Lifeguarding class teach you? (pg. 2) - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔Teach you skills needed to prevent and respond to aquatic
emergencies. Teach land and water rescue skills plus first aid and CPR
Primary Responsibilities of Lifeguards (pg. 2) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Monitor
activities in and near water, prevent injuries by minimalizing hazardous
situations, enforce facility rules, recognize and respond quickly,
administering first aid and CPR, work as a team with other facility
employees
,Secondary Responsibilities of Lifeguards (pg. 2-3) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔test
pool water chemistry, assisting patrons, cleaning/maintenance of pool area,
completing records and reports
(pg. 4) Professional Lifeguards SHOULD NOT - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Leave your
posted station or area while on duty, use mobile phones or other types of
communication while on duty, slouch in chair, participate in conversation
with other patrons or lifeguard staff, eat on stand, use alcohol or drugs (any
that could negatively impact your alertness)
F.I.N.D (pg. 6) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔F=Figure out the problem
I= Identify possible solutions
N= Name the pros and cons for each solution.
D= Decide which solution is best, then act on it
EAP (pg. 6) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Emergency Action Plan
Duty to Act (pg. 6) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔While on the job, you have legal
responsibility to act in an emergency
,Negligence (pg. 6) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔When a person receiving emergency
care has additional harm because lifeguards failed to follow the standard of
care
Consent (pg. 6) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔All people giving medical care MUST
obtain consent before helping an individual
Rescue Tube (pg. 13) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔45-54 inch vinyl, foam-filled tube
with an attached tow line and shoulder strap capable of keeping victims
afloat
Resuscitation Masks (pg. 13) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Transparent, flexible device
that creates a tight seal over the victims mouth and nose to allow you to
breathe air into a victim without making mouth-to-mouth contact.
Gloves (pg. 13) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Disposable (single-use) gloves are used
to protect employees that may be exposed to blood or other bodily fluids.
Backboards (pg. 13) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Standard piece of equipment used at
aquatics facilities to remove victims from water when they are unable to exit
the water on their own. Backboards are also used during head, neck, or
back injuries
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2026. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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, PPE (pg. 14) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Personal Protective Equipment: specialized
clothing, equipment, and supplies used to prevent you from coming into
direct contact with a victims body fluids
BVM (pg. 14) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Bag-Valve-Mask Resuscitator: handheld
device attached to a resuscitation mask used to ventilate a victim in
respiratory arrest when performing CPR. BVM REQUIRES TWO
RESCUERS.
Oxygen Cylinder and Delivery Device (pg. 14) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Breathing
device used to administer emergency oxygen to a victim experiencing
breathing or cardiac emergency
AED (pg. 14) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Automated External Defibrillators: portable
electronic device that analyzes a victims heart rhythm and delivers
electrical shock to re-establich proper rhythm.
RWI (pg. 24) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Recreational Water Illness: earaches,
rashes, diarrhea that can cause illness in aquatics facility
Formed Stool Emergency (pg. 24) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1. Continue Operation
of Filtration System
2. pH must be below 7.5
