First Aid Program Feature for Scouts BSA Troops

BSA has created updated versions of the Troop Program features for Scouts BSA. The First Aid program feature is available in digital format on the BSA website or can be purchased as a publication from you local Scout Shop.

The First Aid program plan helps Scout learn how to respond to medical emergencies. Scout learn and practice what must be done immediately to help people who are injured or ill. The program feature includes some general information and some more specific ideas for meetings:

• Take part in first aid simulations (moulage)
• Learn about the assistance which must be giving while waiting for treatment by medical professionals
• Understand the concepts of triage
• The principle of ABCD for urgent first aid (airway, breathing, circulation, defibrillation)
• How to make an effective 911 call

Suggested troop meeting ideas are grouped by essential, challenging, or advanced. Here are a few you can see in the guide.

• Role play emergency situations (essential)
• Discuss universal precautions (challenging)
• Research wilderness first aid (advanced)
• Make a simulated 911 call (essential)
• Review the steps for CPR (challenging)
• Practice identifying and treating shock (advanced)
• Learn to treat minor burns, sunburn, frostbite, bites and stings, contact with poisonous plants (essential)
• Learn to treat head exhaustion, heat stroke, hypothermia, dehydration, burns, and abdominal pain (challenging)
• Teach first aid skills to others (advanced)
• Learn to treat cuts, scrapes, object in the eye, puncture wounds, splinters, and nose bleeds (essential)
• Learn to treat severe bleeding, broken teeth (challenging)
• Learn first aid for amputations (advanced)
• Learn to treat sprains and injuries (essential)
• Practice making splints with improvised materials (challenging)
• Practice making traction splints and spine immobilization (advanced)

There are also several games suggested to keep things interesting at your troop meetings . The plan even provides Scoutmaster’s minutes and ceremonies for meetings.

Then there is the “Main Event”. Once again, there are suggestions for essential, challenging, or advanced. Details and planning aids can be found in the online guide.

• Hold a first aid clinic to brush up on skills (essential)
• Hold a first aid championship with realistic scenarios (challenging)
• Participate in a community disaster drill (advanced)

Find some related helps and achievements for the First Aid Troop Program Feature below.

First Aid Baseball Game for Scouts BSA and Webelos

First aid baseball is a fun way to review first aid skills with Scouts BSA and Webelos. There are instructions for the game and a set of question cards included in the printable file.

Fake Wounds for First Aid Demonstrations

If your Webelos or Scouts BSA are working on first aid requirements, you can add in some fun by making a fake wound on a "victim" or two.

First Aid for Tick Bites

Scouts like to get outdoors, but in many areas that brings the danger of tick bites. While most tick bites won't cause more than minor irritation, if treated incorrectly complications can occur.

How To Treat a Knife Cut

What is the best way to treat a knife cut? This article from Boy's Life magazine explains how to stop the bleeding, clean the cut, and dress the wound.

Program Planning for Scouts BSA

The Scoutmaster, Senior Patrol Leader, and Assistant Senior Patrol Leader work together to develop long term plans for a Scouts BSA Troop. One thing which can help with this is the BSA troop program features.

Powdered Sports Drink Recipe

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Poison Ivy Fact and Fiction

Summertime activities in the outdoors are great, but watch out for poison ivy. The best way to avoid problems is to avoid poison ivy.

Poisonous Plants Quiz

Scouts BSA working on their Tenderfoot rank need to learn about poisonous plants. Being able to identify hazardous plants will help all Scouts who are in the outdoors, so this knowledge is not just for rank advancement.

Avoiding Hypothermia During Cold Weather Activities

Avoiding hypothermia is key to a successful outdoor activity in cold weather, be it camping, hiking, skiing, ice skating, or snowman building.

Hospital Tag

In this game, players pretend they are wounded and go to the hospital to get fixed up.

First Aid Merit Badge Helps and Documents

Scouts learn how to handle a variety of emergency situations while working on the First Aid merit badge: shock, heart attack, cuts, broken bones, hypothermia, bee stings, heatstroke, convulsions, dehydration, pains, cramps, and more. They learn to "be prepared" for many types of illnesses and injuries.

Scouts BSA Tenderfoot First Aid and Nature Requirements Helps and Documents

The first aid requirements for Tenderfoot cover a variety of situations a Scout might encounter on a campout, especially first aid for nature related injuries. The Scout also learns how to avoid these injuries.

Scouts BSA First Class First Aid and Emergency Preparedness Requirements Helps and Documents

First Class requirement 7 is about being ready. Scouts learn to bandage injuries and recognize the signs of a heart attack. They also learn how to respond in case of a fire or other emergency.

Scouts BSA Second Class First Aid Requirements Helps and Documents

Second Class requirement 6 is all about responding to an emergency with the appropriate first aid. Scouts learn how to handle situations from simple wounds to hurry cases. They also learn how to prevent accidents and injuries.

Scouts BSA Second Class Camping and Outdoor Ethics Requirements Helps and Documents

Second Class requirement 1 is related to camping and being outdoors. Scouts learn to select a campsite and how to have good manners in the outdoors. They put these skills to use by going on outdoor activities.

Scouts BSA Tenderfoot Camping and Outdoor Ethics Requirements Helps and Documents

Tenderfoot requirement 1 is related to camping and the outdoors. New Scouts learn to prepare for a campout and find out what should be on their packing lists. They use these skills when they camp overnight. They also learn how to be responsible citizens in the outdoors.

First Aid Ranger Core Requirement Helps and Documents

First Aid is one of the core requirements for the Venturing Ranger award. To earn this award, a Venture must complete an American Red Cross Wilderness First Aid course or the equivalent.

Scouts BSA First Class Leadership Requirements Helps and Documents

First Class requirement 10 is related to inviting and welcoming others. Scouts invite a friend to come to a Scout activity.

Scouts BSA First Class Camping and Outdoor Ethics Requirements Helps and Documents

First Class requirement 1 is related to camping and being outdoors. Scouts learn how to have good manners in the outdoors. They put these skills to use by going on outdoor activities.

First Aid Ranger Elective Helps and Documents

To complete the First Aid elective for the Venturing Ranger award, Venturers must put together a personal first aid kit and teach others how to put a kit together. They must also take an emergency first aid course, emergency response course, or EMT course.