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Apr 15, 2024
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CJ 228 Community Emergency Response Teams (2 credits)
Course Description
Basic skills needed to respond to community’s and individual’s immediate needs in the aftermath of a disaster, when emergency services are not immediately available.
Student Outcomes
1. Describe the types of hazards that are most likely to affect homes, workplaces and neighborhoods.
2. Take steps to prepare self and family for a disaster.
3. Describe the functions of CERT and their role in immediate response.
4. Identify and reduce potential fire hazards in their homes, workplaces and neighborhoods.
5. Work as a team to apply basic fire suppression strategies, resources and safety measures to extinguish a pan fire.
6. Apply techniques for opening airways, controlling excessive bleeding , and treating for shock.
7. Conduct triage under simulated disaster conditions.
8. Perform head-to-toe patient assessment.
9. Select and set up a treatment area.
10. Employ basic treatments fro various injuries and apply splints to suspected fractures and sprains.
11. Identify planning and size up requirements for potential search and rescue situations.
12. Describe the most common techniques for searching a structure.
13. Work as a team to apply safe techniques for debris removal and victim extrication.
14. Describe ways to protect rescuers during search ad rescue operations.
15. Describe the post-disaster emotional environment and the steps that rescuers can take to relieve their own stressors and those of disaster survivors.
16. Describe CERT organization and documentation requirements.
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