First Aid

First Aid
Merit Badge Workbook
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 1. Satisfy your counselor that you have current knowledge of all first-aid requirements for Tenderfoot, Second Class and
First Class ranks.
Tenderfoot:

11.

Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat for exposure to them.

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Tell how to treat for exposure to them.______________________________________________________________________________________
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 12a. Demonstrate how tocare for someone who is choking.
12b. Show first aid for the following:
 Simple cuts and scrapes
 Blisters on the hand or foot
 Minor (heat/thermal) burns or scalds (superficial, or first-degree)
 Bites and stings of insects and ticks
 Venomous snakebite
 Nosebleed
 Frostbite
 Sunburn
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First AidScout's Name: ________________________
Second Class,

7a.

Show what to do for "hurry" cases of
 stopped breathing,
 serious bleeding,
 and internal poisoning.

 7b.
7c.

Prepare a personal first aid kit to take with you on a hike.
Demonstrate first aid for the following:
 Object in the eye
 Bite of a suspected rabid animal
 Puncture wounds from a splinter, nail, and fishhook Serious burns (second degree)
 Heat exhaustion
 Shock
 Heatstroke,
 Dehydration
 Hypothermia
 Hyperventilation

First Class

8b.

Demonstrate bandages for a sprained ankle, injuries on the head, the upper arm, and the collarbone.

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a sprained ankle,

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injuries on the head,

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injuries on the upper arm,

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injuries on the collarbone.

8c.

Show how totransport by yourself, and with one other person, a person:

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from a smoke-filled room

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with a sprained ankle, for at least 25 yards.

 8d.

Tell the five most common signs of a heart attack.
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