Glossary

• First = immediate• Aid = care• Deals with injuries or sudden illness• DOES NOT replace the need for medical care• Properly applied, it may mean the difference between life and death.

• Leaving a victim after starting to give help without ensuring continued care at the same level or higher.

• Do not leave a victim who needs continuing first aid.

• Doing something that a reasonably prudent person would not do under the same or similar circumstances.

• Failure to do what a reasonably prudent person with the same or similar training would do in the same or similar circumstances.

• When a first aider fails to provide the type of care that would be given by a person having the same or similar training.

Negligence involves:• Having a duty to act.• Breaching that duty.• Causing injury and damages.• Exceeding your level of training.

•When employment requires it.•When on duty.•When a preexisting responsibility exists.

• Touching a person or providing first aid without consent.

Consent must be obtained from every :• alert person• mentally competent person (able to make a rational decision)• person of legal ageverbally or nod of the head

• Unresponsive victim

• Child victim

• Mentally incompetent

• life threatening condition and or parent or guardian not available for consent

Encourage people to assist others in distress by granting them immunity against lawsuits. Applies when rescuer is:• Acting during an emergency• Acting in good faith• Acting without payment• Not guilty of misconduct or negligence