Lifeguard final exam complete questions
with solutions to score a+
To prevent drowning and other injuries from occurring at your aquatic facility CORRECT
ANSWERS Primary responsibility
1. Monitoring activities in and near the water through patron surveillance, 2.preventing
injuries by minimizing or illuminating hazardous situations or behaviors, 3. enforcing
rules and regulations, 4.recognizing in responding quickly to all emergencies 5.working
as a team with other lifeguards facility staff and supervisors CORRECT ANSWERS
Primary responsibilities include
1.Testing pool water 2.assisting patrons 3.cleaning CORRECT ANSWERS Secondary
responsibilities include
You have the legal responsibility to act in an emergency CORRECT ANSWERS Legal
considerations duty to act
You expect to meet a minimum standard of care these include communication to
prevent injuries recognition of someone in need of care attempt to rescue those who
need assistance and provide emergency care to your level of training CORRECT
ANSWERS Legal considerations standard of care
When a person is injured or suffers additional horn because lifeguards failed to follow
the standard of care or fail to act at all CORRECT ANSWERS Legal consideration
negligence
Once care is initiated care must continue until someone with equal or greater training
arrives and takes over CORRECT ANSWERS Legal considerations abandonment
All information received this confidential to the patient/victim CORRECT ANSWERS
Legal considerations confidentiality
Properly document all injuries and incidents CORRECT ANSWERS Legal
considerations documentation
You must ask permission to provide care do this state your name level of training ask to
help, explain what you plan to do. if the person is unable to respond or unconscious
consent is implied. if it is a child ask parental permission if a parent is not immediately
available consent is implied CORRECT ANSWERS Legal consideration consent
If a victim refuses care after you explain why you think it's necessary document if you
deem situation potentially life-threatening call EMS to evaluate CORRECT ANSWERS
Legal consideration refusal of care
, Clean debris's from pool water raise CL2 level and maintain for 25 minutes CORRECT
ANSWERS Fecal and Vomit
Clear the pool and outside area and keep clothes for 30 minutes after last sighting
CORRECT ANSWERS When lightning is sited
No your facility rules and enforce that it is the faculties responsibility to endure all that
policies rules procedures and and emerand emergency action plans are in place
CORRECT ANSWERS Rules and regulations
Recognition of dangerous behaviors bobbing, crawling hand over hand, using flotation
devices CORRECT ANSWERS Surveillance includes
Can't keep their face out of the water can call for help horizontal vertical or diagonal
position floating sculling or treading water CORRECT ANSWERS Distressed swimmer
Can I call for help works to keep face above water arms to the side or in front pressing
down for support can struggle underwater one submerged will eventually lose
consciousness and stop moving CORRECT ANSWERS Active drowning victim
Maybe floating FaceTime face up at or near the surface or sink to the bottom maybe
limp of slight convulsive type movements no locomotion in no breathing CORRECT
ANSWERS Passive drowning victim
A visual technique for watching patrons in the water CORRECT ANSWERS Effective
scanning
If an active active around as well on duty is probably due to one or more of the following
causes
1. Recognition failure to recognize a swimmers in destress
2. Distraction anything that takes your focus off the patron surveillance 3. Intrusion
when secondary duties intrude on your primary responsibility of patron surveillance
CORRECT ANSWERS RID factor
The swimming area is divided into several separate zones with one zone for each
lifeguard station each zone should slightly overlap CORRECT ANSWERS Zone
coverage
You're so in the entire area. In emergency backup coverage you movie responsible for
any additional area well another lifeguard performs a rescue CORRECT ANSWERS
Total coverage
Elevated ground level Roving CORRECT ANSWERS Lifeguard stations
with solutions to score a+
To prevent drowning and other injuries from occurring at your aquatic facility CORRECT
ANSWERS Primary responsibility
1. Monitoring activities in and near the water through patron surveillance, 2.preventing
injuries by minimizing or illuminating hazardous situations or behaviors, 3. enforcing
rules and regulations, 4.recognizing in responding quickly to all emergencies 5.working
as a team with other lifeguards facility staff and supervisors CORRECT ANSWERS
Primary responsibilities include
1.Testing pool water 2.assisting patrons 3.cleaning CORRECT ANSWERS Secondary
responsibilities include
You have the legal responsibility to act in an emergency CORRECT ANSWERS Legal
considerations duty to act
You expect to meet a minimum standard of care these include communication to
prevent injuries recognition of someone in need of care attempt to rescue those who
need assistance and provide emergency care to your level of training CORRECT
ANSWERS Legal considerations standard of care
When a person is injured or suffers additional horn because lifeguards failed to follow
the standard of care or fail to act at all CORRECT ANSWERS Legal consideration
negligence
Once care is initiated care must continue until someone with equal or greater training
arrives and takes over CORRECT ANSWERS Legal considerations abandonment
All information received this confidential to the patient/victim CORRECT ANSWERS
Legal considerations confidentiality
Properly document all injuries and incidents CORRECT ANSWERS Legal
considerations documentation
You must ask permission to provide care do this state your name level of training ask to
help, explain what you plan to do. if the person is unable to respond or unconscious
consent is implied. if it is a child ask parental permission if a parent is not immediately
available consent is implied CORRECT ANSWERS Legal consideration consent
If a victim refuses care after you explain why you think it's necessary document if you
deem situation potentially life-threatening call EMS to evaluate CORRECT ANSWERS
Legal consideration refusal of care
, Clean debris's from pool water raise CL2 level and maintain for 25 minutes CORRECT
ANSWERS Fecal and Vomit
Clear the pool and outside area and keep clothes for 30 minutes after last sighting
CORRECT ANSWERS When lightning is sited
No your facility rules and enforce that it is the faculties responsibility to endure all that
policies rules procedures and and emerand emergency action plans are in place
CORRECT ANSWERS Rules and regulations
Recognition of dangerous behaviors bobbing, crawling hand over hand, using flotation
devices CORRECT ANSWERS Surveillance includes
Can't keep their face out of the water can call for help horizontal vertical or diagonal
position floating sculling or treading water CORRECT ANSWERS Distressed swimmer
Can I call for help works to keep face above water arms to the side or in front pressing
down for support can struggle underwater one submerged will eventually lose
consciousness and stop moving CORRECT ANSWERS Active drowning victim
Maybe floating FaceTime face up at or near the surface or sink to the bottom maybe
limp of slight convulsive type movements no locomotion in no breathing CORRECT
ANSWERS Passive drowning victim
A visual technique for watching patrons in the water CORRECT ANSWERS Effective
scanning
If an active active around as well on duty is probably due to one or more of the following
causes
1. Recognition failure to recognize a swimmers in destress
2. Distraction anything that takes your focus off the patron surveillance 3. Intrusion
when secondary duties intrude on your primary responsibility of patron surveillance
CORRECT ANSWERS RID factor
The swimming area is divided into several separate zones with one zone for each
lifeguard station each zone should slightly overlap CORRECT ANSWERS Zone
coverage
You're so in the entire area. In emergency backup coverage you movie responsible for
any additional area well another lifeguard performs a rescue CORRECT ANSWERS
Total coverage
Elevated ground level Roving CORRECT ANSWERS Lifeguard stations
