Urgent Care Providers Share 5 Crucial Pool Safety Tips Every summer, millions of people take advantage of rising temperatures by swimming in backyard pools. Tragically though, hundreds of youngsters fall victim to drowning each year. As such, it is crucial to communicate a clear set of rules to help avoid accidents and promote safety both in and around the water. The urgent care providers at 181st Street Urgent Care Center in New York, NY, suggest the following set of guidelines to ensure a safe and festive swim season. These simple safety tips will help keep your family and friends protected: • Never Leave Children Unattended: Even with a lifeguard present, it is the duty of parents and adults to keep a close eye on children in the water.
Working with children from Year 5 to Year 12 in an aquatic setting. I am responsible for supervising and educating these children, whilst being actively engaged in the planning process. The service we provide caters for a number of diverse children as we regularly engage with students with physical and intellectual disabilities. Subsequently, our service incorporates inclusive planning in order to accommodate the needs of all students. As an extension of the planning process we also regularly engage in risk management
To be a successful lifeguard, you must like to be in the sun and you need to be very patient with pool patrons. They can be very rude to you, especially the older crowd who has trouble dealing with a teenager telling them that they can not throw their child in the air.
Individuals experiencing fevers, infections and bladder/bowel incontinence are not encouraged to participate in aquatic therapy treatment interventions. Individ...
You are launching a ball from the lower-left corner of a pool table at a 45 degree angle. Both the height and the width of the table are whole number dimensions and the pool table is always a rectangle. The only pockets are those in the four corners. Which pocket does the ball hit? How many times does it bounce before it hits the pocket?
Lifeguards have been around for just about 100 years with quite a bit of history. To start off with, “Lifeguards not being present at all
To understand child protection in regards to safeguarding children and young people a number of factors need to be considered. It is the responsibility of all service providers, educational and health services that work with children and young people in schools where teaching staff have daily contact or external service providers and professionals who come into contact with them on a regular basis to abide by their duty of care by taking reasonable measures to ensure they protect them from any form of harm, abuse or neglect.
It is important that children and young people in a nursery, school, or college setting are protected from harm. It is the adults within the setting responsibility to ensure their welfare. They have a duty of care whilst children are at the setting. All staff and volunteers must be checked for suitability to work with children ( Criminal Records Bureau) before being allowed to work with in the school. By understanding and complying with policies and procedures and being trained in safeguarding and child protection staff can protect children from all types of harm. It also protects adults from allegations of harm or abuse if they comply with policy and procedure. Parents have reassurance that staff are trained and following procedure while their
If this is your first winter having a swimming pool, you need to learn how to protect your swimming pool cover from the winter weather. Here are a few winter weather situations you are likely to encounter, as well as steps you can take to protect your swimming pool cover from each type of winter weather situation.
When becoming a lifeguard, you must learn all types of victims needs. A person who is experiencing a water emergency may have different needs than someone else; therefore there needs to be
The diving board had been broken several times since last summer and had become somewhat of a hazard to the youngins. Just looking at the double springs and a...
Upon reviewing the case, it was reported that the patient— a 45-year-old male with a history of traumatic brain injury (TBI), limited use of extremities and contractures of his left elbow and shoulder1— was unattended during aquatic therapy as the physical therapist (PT) was assisting another patient. After allowing the patient to walk around the pool by himself holding onto the handrail, a physical therapy aide found the patient submerged. CPR was administered by the physical aide and the patient was taken to the hospital where he remained for about one month to get treatment for adult respiratory distress syndrome and aspiration pneumonia.
We have annual traditions that unlike others we have to jump in water. The swim race is probably the coldest thing we done to date. It requires us to swim across the lake with and ice pack taped to our abdomen. The when we get out we run a half a mile with an ice brick in each hand that weighs about 1 pound each. When we get to the finish line we have to slide our way to the warm zone. I have had a great amount of dives that end horribly but when we do the high dive off a cliff in the desert in the middle of the night yeah it might just break your legs. Let’s just begin with we were doing three sixty’s but when I opened my legs I think I died when I hit the water. We then have a blind run where yes you guessed it we run with a blindfold. We thought would be a good idea until we had run into a patch of cactuses. So let us just say we haven’t figured this one out yet. After we were done with blind run we thought we could have a competition that can last forever. That’s where the floater c...
With the wind having layed down over the past few days and being on the bay side of the keys, we finally felt enough warm to swim! I was a bit nervous to jump in but I did it and it was glorious. The salt water felt good on my skin and the stretching out of my swimming muscles felt better. In 8-10 feet of water, I felt like I could really stretch
In conclusion, Bintzler was correct in her statement, “Aquatic therapy is used as a technique to better a person's life physically, socially, physiologically or psychologically.” Not only what goes on in the water during a swimming or aquatic therapy session is inviting to all disabled people, but the assists available to them such as flotation devices, pool lifts, and stair systems (NCPAD.org) make swimming irresistible. After continuos success in the water, the disabled person will reach a new level of confidence that will eventually translate out of the water in his daily life. Moreover, he will be able to live a more confident, pain free life due to swimming therapy’s ability to empower a disabled person physically and mentally.
to save the day in emphatic fashion when there is a problem in the water. Lifeguards have been