First Aid Training for Child Care Teacher in Republic of KOREA

This study was performed to provide the basic data for first aid management by identifying the degree of education on the infant first aid of child care teacher. The concept of first aid in the child care facilities is the basic first aid by the child care teacher, the discoverer, when the emergency occurs and is the process to protect the condition of infant, and to prevent the aggravation and additional damage until receiving the support of the medical expert or the treatment in the hospital. The first aid refers to the skill to performed with hands without special medical equipments or tools and since the pain is reduced, economical damage is minimized and most all, the secondary damage is prevented with simple basic treatment, it is required. Therefore, as one of the emergency medical treatments, the first aid is not only to help temporarily to prevent the danger of life or significant aggravation of symptom until receiving better treat-ment in the hospital but also include the acts to call 119 and to help recovering without medical treatment to prevent the significant aggravation. As such, if one perceives the emergency and knows first aid, he/she may save the life from death and can enhance the quality of life The first person who discover the emergency in the child care facilities is the child care teacher and should be educated so that can provide the important help in the emergency by identifying the emergency through the periodic education without receiving professional first aid training. As a first responder, the faster the action of the child care teacher the greater influence on the prognosis of the infant can be granted. Although the type of accident varies slightly by research, mostly the wound such as fall, bump, bleeding, frac-ture, sprain, dislocation, high fever, fall, etc. is reported. Therefore, through the type of emergency, the child care teacher always needs to observe and protect the infants. As seen above, this study suggests as follows. First, the infant first aid mode for child care teacher should be developed and distributed. General first aid training is important. Particularly, the first aid for infant should guide the characteristics of the infant s develop-mental phase. In addition, through the education of accident type and the treatment training by common symp-tom, the child care teacher can respond to the emergency. Second, the first aid training system should be distributed systematically in the national level. Third, the first aid training for the child care teacher needs the changes of the education strategy