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Lifeguard Exam Sudy Questions with Correct
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A patron collides with another swimmer while diving into the pool and asks the
lifeguard for help. Without performing an assessment, the lifeguard tells the
patron that they can continue swimming. The patron leaves the facility and seeks
medical attention from a hospital after they begins to feel tingling sensations in
their arms and legs. The lifeguard may be: - ✔✔Negligent.
Why is it important to attend a pre-season orientation and training? - ✔✔- To
ensure that lifeguards understand their responsibilities and know how to perform
their job. - To ensure that lifeguards get practice with their facility's safety and
rescue equipment and emergency action plans.
- To ensure lifeguards understand codes, rules and regulations of the facility.
During a weather-related power failure at a facility, you should: - ✔✔Clear
everyone from the pool.
During in-service training, lifeguards practice the steps of recognizing a distressed
swimmer, rescuing an active victim, informing management and speaking with
witnesses. The lifeguards are practicing parts of a(n): - ✔✔Emergency action
plan.
You enter the mechanical room and find a maintenance worker lying on their
back on the floor next to a ladder. You check the scene and determine it is safe to
enter. During your primary assessment, you find the victim is unresponsive but
breathing. You must leave to get help, what should you do? - ✔✔Place the
victim in a recovery position.
, It is very hot in your facility and you are starting to doze on the stand. All of the
following can help you stay alert EXECPT for: - ✔✔Jumping in the pool while on
surveillance duty to cool off.
When completing an incident report: - ✔✔Collect all factual information about
what was seen, heard and the actions taken
When placing a responsive victim with a suspected head, neck or spinal injury on
a backboard, what in-line stabilization technique should you use? - ✔✔The
over-arm head splint
If three lifeguards are on duty, emergency back-up coverage takes place: -
✔✔When a lifeguard enters the water for a rescue.
When conducting a swim test, Lifeguards should use the: - ✔✔Water
Competency Sequence
Members of the safety team, including non-lifeguard personnel, should be: -
✔✔Trained and certified in first aid and CPR/ AED at the same level of the
lifeguard team
You are approaching a victim who is horizontal in the water, at the surface in 4
feet of water. The victim is facing you and appears to be unconscious. What
rescue technique would be appropriate in this situation? - ✔✔Passive victim
front rescue.
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