Online Video Session Information
Online Video Session Links
The links for the online session have been emailed to your parents when they scheduled a video session. Double check with them that they scheduled your video session and that they see a link for the conference room.
Click this link for the scheduler: Babysitter Skills Session Scheduler
What to Expect
The following are critical skills that each participant must be able to understand and demonstrate during their online video session:
- Holding (Cradle Hold, Shoulder Hold, Hip Carry)
- Diapering
- Bottle Feeding
- Burping
- Handwashing (imagining supplies and demonstrating for 1 minute)
The following are coachable skills that each participant must be able to understand. Your instructor will demonstrate the following skills during the online video session:
- Glove removal - coachable (if you have supplies at home).
Demonstrate the skills identified as “critical” without coaching. Describe how to recognize and care for the conditions listed. The following are critical skills that each participant must be able to understand and/or demonstrate:
- Check, Call, Care
- Recovery Position
- Guidelines for Medication
- Complete Choking (alone)
- Complete Choking (baby)
- Complete Choking (child/adult)
- Anaphylaxis and Use of EpiPen Auto Injector
- Life-Threatening External Bleeding
Equipment and Supplies You Will Need
You will be tested on the Critical Skills in your live online video session. You will have a chance to learn the skill, show the skill, and be tested on the skill. You must have proper equipment on class in order to demonstrate the skills shown in this chapter. You will need:
- Baby doll, teddy bear, or mannequin.
- One set of clothes to dress the doll.
- One diaper, or dishcloth to make a cloth diaper.
- One piece of baby wipe, tissue paper, or paper towel.
- One small square blanket for swaddling practice (extra skill - not critical)
- One baby bottle, or water bottle to mimic feeding
- The ability to place your web camera in a position to show your full body for:
- Choking skills
- CPR
- One marker or pen.
See you soon!
2 Lessons